C. Riconda, S. Weber. Plasma optics: A perspective for high-power coherent light generation and manipulation[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2023, 8(2): 023001

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Fig. 1. Example of a very regular density grating generated by two crossing laser beams in a plasma. Reproduced with permission from Peng et al. , Phys. Rev. Appl. 15 , 054053 (2021). Copyright 2021 American Physical Society.22

Fig. 2. Proof-of-principle experiment for an ellipsoidal plasma mirror (EPM) used for re-focusing. Reproduced with permission from Nakatsutsumi et al. , Opt. Lett. 35 , 2134 (2010). Copyright 2010 Optical Society of America.9

Fig. 3. Principle of plasma amplification. Result of a one-dimensional kinetic simulation. The intensity scale is in units of 1015 W/cm2. Courtesy of J.-R. Marquès.
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Table 1. Categorization of various plasma-optical processes. nc denotes the critical plasma density. The notions of strong and weak coupling are discussed in Ref. 5 and references therein. The last column refers to proof-of-principle experiments in the context of high-power operation.

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