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Self-focussing of a laser beam in a multiply ionized, absorbing plasma

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Using a numerical code we have studied self-focussing of an intense laser beam which is propagating through a multiply-ionized absorbing plasma. The effecient self-focussing threshold has been calculated as a function of various pulse and plasma parameters.

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  1. Laser Physics Group, Department of Engineering Physics, Research School of Physical Sciences, The Australian National University, 2600, Canberra, ACT, Australia

    V. Del Pizzo & B. Luther-Davies

  2. CRPP-EPFL, Avenue des Bains, CH-1007, Lausanne, Switzerland

    M. R. Siegrist

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Del Pizzo, V., Luther-Davies, B. & Siegrist, M.R. Self-focussing of a laser beam in a multiply ionized, absorbing plasma. Appl. Phys. 18, 199–204 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00934416

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