Propagation of intense laser pulses in plasma with a prepared phase-space distribution

Abstract Optimizing the laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA) requires control of the intense driving laser pulse and its stable propagation. This is usually challenging because of mode mismatching arising from relativistic self-focusing, which invariably alters the velocity and shape of the laser puls...

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Main Authors: Devki N. Gupta, Samuel R. Yoffe, Arohi Jain, Bernhard Ersfeld, Dino A. Jaroszynski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-11-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-24664-x