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

نویسندگان

  • D. Subbarao
  • Karuna Batra
  • Manik Bali
  • Sugata Mitra
چکیده

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. PACS: 52.38.Hb; 42.65.Tg; 42.65.Wi; 05.45.Yv

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Computer Physics Communications

دوره 164  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004