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Various types of relativistically intense electromagnetic waves in cold underdense plasmas, which we explored in the previous chapter, can be unstable to small perturbations. Investigation of these instabilities makes it possible to describe the scattering of powerful laser radiation in plasmas, harmonics generation, and a whole ensemble of other phenomena. Since extremely high intensities are considered, the very first requirement, which, for example, is met by employing solutions of the Akhiezer—Polovin problem, is to use arbitrary amplitude solutions of the Maxwell and plasma dynamics equations as the ground state for the perturbative analysis.
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Borovsky, A.V., Galkin, A.L., Shiryaev, O.B., Auguste, T. (2003). Instabilities of Circularly Polarized Plane Electromagnetic Waves in Plasmas. In: Laser Physics at Relativistic Intensities. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, vol 34. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05242-6_4
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