The filamentation of the laser beam as a labyrinth instability
@article{Spineanu2015TheFO,
title={The filamentation of the laser beam as a labyrinth instability},
author={Florin Spineanu and Madalina Vlad},
journal={Journal of Physics: Conference Series},
year={2015},
volume={633}
}At incident powers much higher than the threshold for filamentation a pulse from a high-power laser generates in the transversal plane a complex structure. It consists of randomly meandering stripes defining connected regions where the field intensity is high; and, the complementary regions dominated by diffusive plasma with defocusing property. The pattern is similar to an ensemble of clusters of various extensions. We provide evidence that there is a correlation between this filamentation and…
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