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Simulation of the excitation of quasi-plane wake waves in a plasma by a resonant sequence of laser pulses with a variable envelope

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Results are presented from full-scale numerical simulations of the excitation of wake waves by a sequence of weakly relativistic laser pulses in a subcritical plasma. Computations were carried out with a 2D3V version of the SUR-CA code that is based on the local-recursive nonlocal-asynchronous algorithm of the particle-in-cell method. The parameters of a train of laser pulses were chosen to correspond to the resonant excitation of the wake field. The curvature of the envelope of the pulses was chosen to depend on the number of the pulse in the train. Numerical simulations showed that there are plane waves during the first period of the plasma wave behind the pulse train.

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  1. Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Kashirskoe sh. 31, Moscow, 115409, Russia

    E. I. Kalinnikova

  2. Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Miusskaya pl. 4, Moscow, 125047, Russia

    V. D. Levchenko

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Original Russian Text © E.I. Kalinnikova, V.D. Levchenko, 2008, published in Fizika Plazmy, 2008, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 324–329.

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Kalinnikova, E.I., Levchenko, V.D. Simulation of the excitation of quasi-plane wake waves in a plasma by a resonant sequence of laser pulses with a variable envelope. Plasma Phys. Rep. 34, 290–295 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X08040053

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