Ideal form of optical plasma lenses
Abstract
The canonical form of an optical plasma lens is a parabolic density channel. This form suffers from spherical aberrations, among others. Spherical aberration is partially corrected by adding a quartic term to the radial density profile. Ideal forms which lead to perfect focusing or imaging are obtained. The fields at the focus of a strong lens are computed with high accuracy and efficiency using a combination of eikonal and full Maxwell descriptions of the radiation propagation. The calculations are performed using a new computer propagation code, SeaRay, which is designed to transition between various solution methods as the beam propagates through different spatial regions. The calculations produce the full Maxwell vector fields in the focal region.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- May 29, 2018
- Source ID
- 10.1063/1.5030110
Entities
People
- A. B. Stamm
- Andrew Richardson
- Bahman Hafizi
- D. Gordon
- D. Kaganovich
- D. Zhigunov
- Luke A. Johnson
- R. F. Hubbard
Organizations
- College of William & Mary
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Naval Research Laboratory