New regime of anomalous penetration of relativistically strong laser radiation into an overdense plasma
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- 1 September 2000
- journal article
- Published by Pleiades Publishing Ltd in JETP Letters
- Vol. 72 (5) , 241-244
Abstract
It is shown that penetration of relativistically intense laser light into an overdense plasma, accessible by self-induced transparency, occurs over a finite length only. The penetration length depends crucially on the overdense plasma parameter and increases with increasing incident intensity after exceeding the threshold for self-induced transparency. Exact analytical solutions describing the plasma-field distributions are presented.Keywords
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