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Nonlinear interaction of a powerful laser with an electron plasma

M. Y. Yu, P. K. Shukla

The Physics of Fluids · 1982 · 40 citations · 5 references

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Abstract

Interaction of a high-power circularly polarized electromagnetic wave with forced Langmuir oscillations is shown to result in solitary wave structure whose electron density profile has a depression at the center and humps on the sides.

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