Nonlinear oscillatory waveguide propagation in a plasma |
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Authors: | M. S. Sodha S. Prasad V. K. Tripathi |
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Affiliation: | 1. Physics Department, Indian Institute of Technology, 110029, New Delhi, India
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Abstract: | The presence of an intense Gaussian laser beam gives rise to a ponderomotive force on electrons in a collisionless plasma, leading to a redistribution of electron density along the wave-front and consequently to an intensity dependent dielectric constant which saturates with increasing intensity. The intensity dependent dielectric constant is responsible for beam propagation in an oscillatory waveguide. It is seen that (i) a beam of radiusr 0 less thanr 0min (?c/ω p) cannot be focused in the plasma regardless of its power, (ii) minimum dimension of oscillatory waveguide increases with increasing power of the beam. Similar results are also obtained for collisional plasma where nonlinearity arises due to nonuniform heating and consequent redistribution of carriers. |
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