Navigation   about theory   people   projects   publications   review   simulations   home		Pulse Compression in Plasma: Generation of Femtosecond Pulses without CPA Authors: G. Shvets, N.J. Fisch, A. Pukhov, and J. Meyer-ter-Vehn Date of PPPL Report: July 2000 Presented at: the 12th International Conference on Ultra-fast Phenomena, held at Charlston, SC, 9-13 July 2000. To be published in the conference proceedings. Laser pulses can be effciently compressed to femtosecond duration when a smaller- frequency short pulse collides with high frequency long pulse in rare plasma, absorbing most of its energy. The mechanism of short pulse amplification is nonlinear superradiance.
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