Investigation of the Onset and Development of Forward Scattering in an Underdense Plasma
Abstract
We investigate the distortion of a spatial intensity modulation imposed on a 527nm f/10 probe beam as it transmits through an underdense plasma characterized with Thomson scattering. Combining the measurements with full wave simulations of beam propagation through the entire plasma show that the key features of the data can be reproduced using the Kaiser thermal transport model.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- June 2003
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.245001
- Bibcode:
- 2003PhRvL..90x5001M
- Keywords:
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- 52.25.Fi;
- 52.35.Mw;
- 52.38.Hb;
- Transport properties;
- Nonlinear phenomena: waves wave propagation and other interactions;
- Self-focussing channeling and filamentation in plasmas