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Resonant self-trapping and absorption of intense bessel beams
1Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
Physical Review Letters
|October 6, 2000
Abstract:
We report the observation of resonant self-trapping and enhanced laser-plasma heating resulting from propagation of high intensity Bessel beams in neutral gas. The enhancement in absorption and plasma heating is directly correlated to the spatial trapping of laser radiation.