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Physics of Plasmas / Volume 19 / Issue 2 / LETTERS

Phys. Plasmas 19, 020702 (2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3683001 (4 pages)

Relativistic spherical plasma waves

S. S. Bulanov1, A. Maksimchuk2, C. B. Schroeder3, A. G. Zhidkov4, E. Esarey3, and W. P. Leemans1,3

1University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
2Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
3Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
4Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan

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(Received 12 August 2011; accepted 30 December 2011; published online 14 February 2012)

Tightly focused laser pulses that diverge or converge in underdense plasma can generate wake waves, having local structures that are spherical waves. Here we study theoretically and numerically relativistic spherical wake waves and their properties, including wave breaking.

© 2012 American Institute of Physics

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Keywords

numerical analysis, plasma density, plasma light propagation, plasma nonlinear waves, relativistic plasmas, wakes

PACS

  • 52.27.Ny

    Relativistic plasmas

  • 52.38.Dx

    Laser light absorption in plasmas (collisional, parametric, etc.)

  • 52.35.Mw

    Nonlinear phenomena: waves, wave propagation, and other interactions (including parametric effects, mode coupling, ponderomotive effects, etc.)

  • 02.60.-x

    Numerical approximation and analysis

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3683001

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1070-664X (print)  
1089-7674 (online)

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