Waveguiding by axicon‐focused laser beams

Nov 30, 1994
10 pages
Published in:
  • AIP Conf.Proc. 335 (1995) 419-428
  • Published: Jun 1, 1995
Report number:
  • PRINT-94-0233

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Abstract: (AIP)
We propose a method for formation of a long plasma waveguide based on axicon focusing of a radially polarized CO2 laser pulse into a uniform, low density discharge plasma. Simulations demonstrate that an extended cylindrical plasma channel with a wall height ΔN e =1.5×1016 cm−3 will be produced in a DC or RF discharge in 0.17 atm of hydrogen after axicon‐focusing of a nanosecond 1‐GW/cm2 CO2 laser pulse.
  • Carbon dioxide
  • Laser beams
  • Physics demonstrations
  • Plasma channeling
  • Plasma density
  • electron: accelerator
  • accelerator: plasma
  • radiation: laser
  • accelerator: laser
  • photon: polarized beam
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