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A new regime of anomalous penetration of relativistically strong laser radiation into an overdense plasma

A. Kim, F. Cattani, D. Anderson, M. Lisak

physics.plasm-pharXiv:physics/0007037

Abstract

It is shown that penetration of relativistically intense laser light into an overdense plasma, accessible by self-induced transparency, occurs over a finite length only. The penetration length depends crucially on the overdense plasma parameter and increases with increasing incident intensity after exceeding the threshold for self-induced transparency. Exact analytical solutions describing the plasma-field distributions are presented.

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