The nonlinear interaction of high-power multi-color laser beams in plasmas is investigated numerically. Both the relativistic mass increase and the driven plasma wave contribute to the mutual beam-beam interaction and to ...

Laboratories around the world are planning petawatt laser driven experiments. The Texas petawatt laser offers the ability to demonstrate laser wake field acceleration (LWFA) in a unique regime with pulse duration (similar ...

Frequency Domain Holography (FDH), a technique for visualizing quasistatic objects propagating near the speed of light, has produced >snapshots> of laser wakefields,(1) but they are averaged over structural variations that ...

Compact near-field solid-state accelerating structure powered by a carbon dioxide (CO(2)) laser is considered. The accelerating luminous transverse magnetic mode is excited in a few-micron wide evacuated planar channel ...