SPECTRAL BLUESHIFTING AND SPATIAL DEFOCUSING OF INTENSE LASER-PULSES IN DENSE GASES

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RAE, SC
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[1] Clarendon Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford
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10.1016/0030-4018(94)90565-7
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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When an intense ultrashort laser pulse is focused into a dense gas, a plasma can be generated directly by multiphoton or tunneling ionisation. This plasma can affect the propagation of the laser pulse, causing both spatial defocusing and spectral blueshifting. A two-dimensional calculation of the propagation of an intense pulse through an ionising gas is presented, and the correlation between spatial and spectral effects is investigated.
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