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Magnetic field generation by powerful laser beams

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, , Citation P K Shukla and M Y Yu 1984 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 26 841 DOI 10.1088/0741-3335/26/6/008

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1 Inst. fur Theoretische Phys. I, Ruhr-Univ. Bochum, Bochum, West Germany

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Abstract

The problem of magnetic field generation by a non-uniform laser beam is reconsidered. Accounting for the relativistic nonlinearities as well as the ponderomotive force, the authors calculate the magnetic field profile generated by a high power laser beam.

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