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A large distance propagation in turbulent atmosphere results in disintegration of laser beam into speckles. We find that the most intense speckle approximately preserves both the Gaussian shape and the diameter of the initial collimated…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-10 Pavel M. Lushnikov , Natalia Vladimirova

Power broadening refers to the widening of the spectral line profile in a two-state quantum transition as the strength of the driving field increases. This phenomenon commonly arises in continuous-wave driving when the radiation field's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Ivo S. Mihov , Nikolay V. Vitanov

A statistical model for the polarization of pulsar radio emission is enhanced to account for the heavy modulation of the emission, the possible covariance of the Stokes parameters, and the observed asymmetries in the distributions of total…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-12 M. M. McKinnon

Although, for current laser pulse energies, the weakly nonlinear regime of LWFA is known to be the optimal for reaching the highest possible electron energies, the capabilities of upcoming large laser systems will provide the possibility of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-06 Erik Wallin , Arkady Gonoskov , Christopher Harvey , Olle Lundh , Mattias Marklund

The filamentational instability of spatially broadband femtosecond optical pulses in air is investigated by means of a kinetic wave equation for spatially incoherent photons. An explicit expression for the spatial amplification rate is…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Marklund , P. K. Shukla

Backward Raman amplification of laser pulses in plasmas can produce nearly relativistic unfocused output intensities and multi-exawatt powers in compact devices. The largest achievable intensity depends on which of major competitive…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 V. M. Malkin , Z. Toroker , N. J. Fisch

We analyze the role of the difference between the central frequencies of the spectral distributions of the vector potential and the electric field of a short laser pulse. The frequency shift arises when the electric field is determined as…

The effects of turbulence intensity and turbulence region on the distribution of femtosecond laser filaments are experimentally elaborated. Through the ultrasonic signals emitted by the filaments, and it is observed that increasing…

In a uniform radio-frequency (RF) plasma between a large electrode pair, the addition of an axial magnetic field induces diverse longitudinal filaments. To reveal its pattern dynamics, we conduct two-dimensional (2D) Particle-In-Cell (PIC)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Huidong Huang , Jian Chen , Zhibin Wang

When a relativistic intensity laser interacts with the surface of a solid density target, suprathermal electron currents are subject to Weibel instability filamentation when propagating through the thermal population of the bulk target. We…

We model the process of ultra broadband light generation in which a pair of laser pulses separated by the Raman frequency drive a Raman transition. In contrast to the usual approach using separate field envelopes for the different frequency…

Optics · Physics 2008-07-24 P. Kinsler , G. H. C. New

Generation of relativistic electron (RE) beams during ultraintense laser pulse interaction with plasma targets is studied by collisional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. Strong magnetic field with transverse scale length of several local…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-10-19 X. H. Yang , H. B. Zhuo , H. Xu , Z. Y. Ge , F. Q. Shao , M. Borghesi , Y. Y. Ma

While propagating in transparent media, near-infrared multi-terawatt (TW) laser beams break up in a multitude of filaments of typically 100-200 um diameter with peak intensities as high as 10 to 100~TW/cm$^{2}$. We observe a phase…

In this paper we examine the spectral changes in a white light laser filament due to different pulse shapes generated by a pulse shaping setup. We particularly explore how the properties of the filament spectra can be controlled by…

Mode-locked lasers exhibit complex nonlinear dynamics. Precise observation of these dynamics will aid in understanding of the underlying physics and provide new insights for laser design and applications. The starting dynamics, from initial…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-02 Guoqing Pu , Lilin Yi , Li Zhang , Yuanhua Feng , Zhaohui Li , Weisheng Hu

We have experimentally investigated the spectral characteristics and spatial structure of femtosecond pulses from a titanium:sapphire laser during filamentation in an optical cell filled with argon at pressures up to 40 atm under pressure…

A cold electron beam propagating through a background plasma is subject to filamentation process due to theWeibel instability. If the initial beam radius is large compared with the electron skin depth and the beam density is much smaller…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-09-05 Vladimir Khudik , Igor Kaganovich , Gennady Shvets

Propagation of few-cycle laser pulses in optical fiber is investigated beyond the unidirectional approximation. Considered medium parameters include dispersion, Kerr and Raman nonlinearities. High intensities of ~10^10 kW/cm^2 lead to…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-24 Leonid Konev , Yuri Shpolyanskiy

We investigate the different facets of ion acceleration by a relativistically intense circularly polarized laser pulse interacting with thin near-critical density plasma targets. Our simulations establish that plasma density gradient and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-28 Shivani Choudhary , Sudipta Mondal , Daniele Margarone , Subhendu Kahaly

Power broadening $-$ the broadening of the spectral line profile of a two-state quantum transition as the amplitude of the driving field increases $-$ is a well-known and thoroughly examined phenomenon in spectroscopy. It typically occurs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Ivo S. Mihov , Nikolay V. Vitanov