Excitation and enhancement of wakefield by beating of two laser beams in a preformed plasma channel: An analytical study

We investigate analytically the nonlinear interaction of two beating laser beams with plasma by considering electron density inhomogeneity in the axial and radial directions. We apply the fluid model coupled with Maxwell equations to obtain a nonlinear equation for studying the plasma wave. We solve this nonlinear equation using the hypergeometric and Airy functions and present the damping and outgoing wave solutions. Our results show that the longitudinal and transverse wakefields generated in the preformed density-ramped plasma channel are much stronger than the inhomogeneous plasma with density-ramped profile. Published under an exclusive license by AIP Publishing.