Nonparaxial Propagation of Intense Laser Pulses in Plasmas
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Non-paraxial propagation of ultrashort, high power laser pulses in plasma channels is examined. In the adiabatic limit, pulse energy conservation, nonlinear group velocity, damped betatron oscillations, self-steepening, self-phase modulation, and shock formation are analyzed. In the non-adiabatic limit, the coupling of forward Hainan scattering (FRS) and the self-modulation instability (SMI) is analyzed and growth rates are derived, including regimes of reduced growth. The SMI is found to dominate FRS in most regimes of interest.
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