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Interaction of laser radiation with matter

Laser flux causing reversal of plasma waves

V. F. Kovalev, V. V. Pustovalov


Abstract: The condition for reversal (breaking) of the profile of nonlinear Langmuir oscillations, excited by laser radiation, is stated and analyzed as a function of the laser plasma parameters. It is shown that the laser flux causing reversal of a Langmuir wave has a minimum when considered as a function of the characteristic size of a plasma density inhomogeneity.

UDC: 621.373.826

PACS: 52.35.Fp, 52.35.Mw, 52.38.-r, 52.25.-b

Received: 13.02.1987

 English version: Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1988, 18:4, 463–466

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