Fast compression of laser beams to highly overcritical powers

V. M. Malkin; G. Shvets; N. J. Fisch

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.4448

Fast compression of laser beams to highly overcritical powers

V. M. Malkin, G. Shvets, N. J. Fisch

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	4448-4451
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical review letters
Volume	82
Issue number	22
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.4448
State	Published - 1999

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