Intensification and location of relativistic laser pulses against pointing fluctuations with micro-tube plasma lenses |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Physics and Electronic Science, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, China;2. School of Physics and Information Technology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi''an 710062, China;3. National Laboratory on High Power Laser and Physics, Shanghai 201800, China;4. Key Laboratory of High Power Laser and Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China |
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| Abstract: | We analyze, via an off-axis incident model and three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations, the influence of beam pointing fluctuations (BPFs) on the propagation properties of relativistic laser pulses in micro-tubes. It is observed that the in-tube laser intensity can be further amplified in the BPFs-induced off-axis incident case. But the intensification factor exhibits strong polarization-dependence. When the laser pulse is linearly polarized in the off-axis incident plane (p-polarization), more electrons may be dragged out from about a half of the tube inner surface in each across section than in the on-axis incident case, enhancing the effects of relativistic nonlinearity and channel focusing. The area for generating more electrons is reduced by one half in the s-polarization case, resulting in less efficient light intensification. The BPFs-induced off-axis incident also leads to pulse shortening. Moreover, light confinement in the tube core is evident and the laser pulse tends to be coaxial with the tube. |
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| Keywords: | Relativistic laser pulse Micro-tube plasma lens Beam pointing fluctuation Light intensification Beam location |
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