Investigations into the volume plasma density grating waveplate

Holt, George K. and Vieux, Gregory and Ersfeld, Bernhard and Yoffe, Samuel R. and Feehan, James and Brunetti, Enrico and Hur, Min Sup and Jaroszynski, Dino A. (2021) Investigations into the volume plasma density grating waveplate. Proceedings of SPIE, 11778. 117780M. ISSN 0277-786X

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    Abstract

    Volume density gratings produced by degenerate, counterpropagating laser pulses in plasma have several useful optical properties. Here we report on one of these in an investigation into creation of a transient plasma density grating that functions as a waveplate.

    ORCID iDs

    Holt, George K., Vieux, Gregory ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4040-4117, Ersfeld, Bernhard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5597-9429, Yoffe, Samuel R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6723-4990, Feehan, James, Brunetti, Enrico ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8302-9762, Hur, Min Sup and Jaroszynski, Dino A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3006-5492;
    • Item type:Article
      ID code:76476
      Dates:
      Date
      Event
      14 May 2021
      Published
      18 April 2021
      Published Online
      1 February 2021
      Accepted
      Keywords:plasma optics, high-intensity laser-plasma interactions, particle-in-cell simulations, plasma gratings, plasma, waveplate, polarisation of light, EPOCH, Cirrus, ARCHER2, Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
      Subjects:Science > Physics
      Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
      Depositing user: Pure Administrator
      Date deposited:18 May 2021 10:38
      Last modified:31 Jul 2021 02:54
      URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/76476
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