Formation of Optical Bullets in Laser-Driven Plasma Bubble Accelerators
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Author(s): Peng Dong, S. A. Reed, S. A. Yi, S. Kalmykov, G. Shvets, M. C. Downer, N. H. Matlis, W. P. Leemans, C. McGuffey, S. S. Bulanov, V. Chvykov, G. Kalintchenko, K. Krushelnick, A. Maksimchuk, T. Matsuoka, A. G. R. Thomas, and V. Yanovsky
Electron density bubbles—wake structures generated in plasma of density n [over ¯] _{e} ∼10^{19} cm^{-3} by the light pressure of intense ultrashort laser pulses—are shown to reshape weak copropagating probe pulses into optical “bullets.” The bullets are reconstructed using frequenc...
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 134801] Published Mon Mar 29, 2010
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