Fast Compression of Laser Beams to Highly Overcritical Powers

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Abstract

Laser beams can be strongly compressed in a plasma by stimulated Raman backscattering in a time short compared to the time scale for filamentation instabilities to develop. Such a compression should make feasible multi-MJ multi-exawatt-laser pulses technologically challenging by other means. The compression efficiency can reach nearly $100%$ at the Langmuir wave breaking limit.

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Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma

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Affordable and clean energy

Publication Details

Published in: Physical Review Letters

Volume 82, Issue 22, pp. 4448-4451

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.82.4448

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