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Moving weakly relativistic electromagnetic solitons in laser-plasmas

Plasma Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

A case of moving one-dimensional electromagnetic (EM) solitons formed in a relativistic interaction of a linearly polarized laser light with underdense cold plasma is investigated. The relativistic Lorentz force in an intense laser light pushes electrons into longitudinal motion generating coupled longitudal-transverse wave modes. In a weakly relativistic approximation these modes are well described by a dynamical equation of the generalized nonlinear Schrodinger type, with two additional nonlocal terms [1]. An original analytical solution for a moving EM soliton case is here calculated in an implicit form. The soliton motion down-shifts the soliton eigen-frequency while decreases its amplitude. An influence of the soliton velocity on stability properties is analytically predicted.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0410209,
  title  = {Moving weakly relativistic electromagnetic solitons in laser-plasmas},
  author = {Ljupco Hadzievski and Ana Mancic and Milos Skoric},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0410209},
  year   = {2007}
}

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12th International Congress on Plasma Physics, 25-29 October 2004, Nice (France)