Interactions of Ultrashort, Ultrahigh Intensity Laser Pulses with Underdense Plasmas

Authors

• Xiaofang Wang, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
• Wei Yu, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
• Sterling Backus, JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
• Margaret Murnane, JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
• Henry Kapteyn, JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
• Donald P. Umstadter, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

11-20-2001

Comments

Technical Digest. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2001. 4th Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (Cat. No.01TH8557). IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA; 2001; 2 vol. pp.p.I-74-5 vol.1. Copyright 2001. Permission to use.

Abstract

The interactions of ultraintense laser pulses with underdense plasmas are studied in a new regime in which the longitudinal spatial extent of the pulse duration is close to both the laser focal spot size and the plasma wavelength.