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Computer simulation of cylindrical laser beam self-focusing in a plasma

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Sugata Mitra

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Abstract

A comparison of the beam propagation method (BPM) in two transverse dimensions and for a cylindrically symmetric laser beam with a direct FFT based method is presented for self-focusing of laser beam in a plasma with saturating type (ponderomotive) nonlinearity and cubic nonlinearity.

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Author(s): Batra K, Mitra S, Subbarao D, Uma R

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Computer Physics Communications

Year: 2004

Volume: 164

Issue: 1-3

Pages: 472-476

ISSN (print): 0010-4655

ISSN (electronic): 1879-2944

Publisher: Elsevier BV, North-Holland

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2004.06.064

DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2004.06.064

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