| Issue |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 167, 2018
Plasma Physics by Laser and Applications (PPLA 2017)
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| Article Number | 01003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | High laser intensity facilities | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201816701003 | |
| Published online | 09 January 2018 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201816701003
Ray optics hamiltonian approach to relativistic self focusing of ultraintense lasers in underdense plasmas
1
INFN-LNF, via Enrico Fermi 40, 00044 Frascati, Rome, Italy
2
Department of Physics, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Piazzale A. Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy
3
Physics Department of the University and INFN, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 3, 56127 Pisa, Italy
4
Department of Basic and Applied Sciences for Engineering (SBAI) and INFN-Roma1, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Via A. Scarpa 14, 00161 Rome, Italy
* e-mail: alessandro.curcio@uniroma1.it
Published online: 9 January 2018
The relativistic self focusing of an ultraintense laser propagating through an underdense plasma is analyzed from a geometrical optics point of view, exploiting the classical hamiltonian formalism. The distribution of the laser intensity along the self-generated plasma channel is studied and compared to measurements.
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