Article: Short laser pulses amplification in oversized dielectric capillary plasmas

I. Y. Dodin, G. M. Fraiman
Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Science, Nizhnii Novgorod, Russia

Short laser pulses can be significantly amplified by Raman backscattering in a plasma within an oversized dielectric capillary. The capillary allows compensating diffraction spreading of the pulses and maintaining high amplification efficiency on traces larger than the diffraction length. Parame-ters of an experiment for laser pulses amplification in a capillary plasma are proposed.