Self-focusing and defocusing phenomena of super-Gaussian laser beams in plasmas carrying density gradient

L Devi, HK Malik - Journal of Optics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Considering nonlinearities due to relativistic mass variation and ponderomotive force driven
depression in the electron density, a model is developed for the self-focusing of a super …

[HTML][HTML] Charged particle dynamics in an elliptically polarized electromagnetic wave and a uniform axial magnetic field

SK Mishra, S Sharma, S Sengupta - Physics of Plasmas, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
An analytical study of charged particle dynamics in the presence of an elliptically polarized
electromagnetic wave and a uniform axial magnetic field is presented. It is found that a …

Enhancing electron acceleration efficiency with Sinh-Gaussian laser beams and magnetic wigglers in vacuum

V Sharma, V Thakur - Journal of Optics, 2024 - Springer
The energy efficiency of electron acceleration in a vacuum can be improved by incorporating
external magnetic fields, frequency chirping, and other techniques. In this study, we applied …

Effect of trapezoidal plasma density region in bubble wakefield acceleration

HK Malik, S Kumar, DK Singh - Physica Scripta, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
In the process of bubble wakefield acceleration highly nonlinear region is developed inside
plasma, which intuitively suggests that nonuniform plasma density having gradients may be …

Role of ultrashort trapezoidal temporal pulse profile in laser wakefield acceleration in bubble regime

S Kumar, DK Singh, HK Malik - Contributions to Plasma Physics - Wiley Online Library
A computational study is presented on laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA) in bubble
regime with the use of ultrashort laser pulse propagating in an under‐dense plasma. The …