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Bonatto, A.

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FR5RFP019 Transversal Threshold for Modulational Instability in Laser-Plasma Systems 4570
 
  • A. Bonatto, R. Pakter, F.B. Rizzato
    IF-UFRGS, Porto Alegre
 
 

Funding: This work has received financial support from AFOSR, Arlington, VA (under Grant FA9550-06-1-0345) and from CNPq, Brazil.


In the present analysis we study the self consistent propagation of intense laser pulses in a cold relativistic ideal-fluid underdense plasma, with particular interest in how the envelope dynamics is affected by the plasma frequency. Analysis of the linear system associated with the chosen model shows the existence of thresholds that can led propagating pulses to distinct modulational instabilities, according to the relation between its transversal wave vector and the plasma frequency.