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

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.