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Nonlinear Dynamics of Wave Beams and Packets in an Ionizable Medium

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We present a review of the studies on nonlinear dynamics of the plasma–field system formed in the processes of breakdown of a gas by high-intensity laser or microwave radiation. The ionization instability dominating these processes significantly modifies the known effects of self-action of waves in a medium and gives rise to a number of new effects which are absent for other nonlinearity mechanisms. We describe the most important among these effects, such as the ionization–field instability of a plane wave, the self-channeling of radiation in the form of surface or leaky waves, and the self-conversion of the spectrum of the ionizing radiation. The results of numerical simulations of the dynamics of nonequilibrium freely-localized discharges created by focused microwave and laser pulses are presented.

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  1. Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

    V. B. Gildenburg & N. A. Zharova

  2. Institute for Physics of Microstructures of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

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Gildenburg, V.B., Zharova, N.A. & Pozdnyakova, V.I. Nonlinear Dynamics of Wave Beams and Packets in an Ionizable Medium. Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics 46, 323–337 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026307515377

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