Abstract

For a variety of applications, including electron-beam accelerators, high-intensity low- divergence x-ray sources, and high-order nonlinear optical interactions, it is necessary to channel high-intensity light for distances substantially in excess of conventional-optics Rayleigh ranges. A number of plasma-based schemes have been investigated, all of which rely on nonlinear interactions between a focused laser pulse and an initially uniform gas.^1,2

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