Mitigating the relativistic laser beam filamentation via an elliptical beam profile.
It is shown that the filamentation instability of relativistically intense laser pulses in plasmas can be mitigated in the case where the laser beam has an elliptically distributed beam profile. A high-power elliptical Gaussian laser beam would break up into a regular filamentation pattern-in contra...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2015
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