Stable self-channeling of intense ultraviolet pulses in underdense plasma, producing channels exceeding 100 Rayleigh lengths
- Laboratory for Atomic, Molecular and Radiation Physics, Department of Physics, Room 2136 SES, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 West Taylor, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7059 (United States)
- General Physics Institute, Academy of Sciences, Moscow 11794 (Russian Federation)
- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
Spatially confined propagation of high-power subpicosecond ([similar to] 270-fs) ultraviolet (248-nm) pulses has been experimentally studied in cold underdense plasma. The observed channels were longitudinally uniform, were approximately 1.4 [mu]m in diameter, and persisted for a length of 3--4 mm, a distance exceeding 100 Rayleigh ranges. X rays with a quantum energy [gt] 0.5 keV were also detected from the zone of propagation in coincidence with the channel formation. The occurrence of self-channeling with the rapid formation of a stable, extended, and longitudinally homogeneous filament is in qualitative agreement with a theoretical picture involving relativistic and charge-displacement nonlinearities.
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG02-91ER12108
- OSTI ID:
- 6698955
- Journal Information:
- Journal of the Optical Society of America, Part B: Optical Physics; (United States), Vol. 11:10; ISSN 0740-3224
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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