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Whispering Gallery Effect in Relativistic Optics

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A relativistic laser pulse, confined in a cylindrical-like target, under specific conditions may perform multiple scattering along the internal target surface. This results in the confinement of the laser light, leading to a very efficient interaction. The demonstrated propagation of the laser pulse along the curved surface is just yet another example of the “whispering gallery” effect, although nonideal due to laser–plasma coupling. In the relativistic domain its important feature is a gradual intensity decrease, leading to changes in the interaction conditions. The process may pronounce itself in plenty of physical phenomena, including very efficient electron acceleration and generation of relativistic magnetized plasma structures.

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  1. Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan

    Y. Abe, K. F. F. Law, S. Fujioka, S. Kojima, S.-H. Lee, S. Sakata, K. Matsuo, A. Oshima, A. Morace, Y. Arikawa, A. Yogo, M. Nakai & T. Norimatsu

  2. National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), Moscow, 115409, Russia

    Ph. Korneev & S. Gus’kov

  3. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    Ph. Korneev & S. Gus’kov

  4. University of Bordeaux, CNRS, CEA, CELIA, Talence, 33405, France

    E. d’Humières, J. J. Santos & V. Tikhonchuk

  5. National Institute for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan

    K. Kondo

  6. Purdue University, West Lafayette, 47907, USA

    A. Sunahara

  7. ELI-Beamlines, Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Dolní Břežany, 252 41, Czech Republic

    V. Tikhonchuk

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Abe, Y., Law, K.F.F., Korneev, P. et al. Whispering Gallery Effect in Relativistic Optics. Jetp Lett. 107, 351–354 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364018060012

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