Fig. 5. Schematic description of the thermal self-focusing process. Increased electron heating in the focused regions produces a temperature gradient that drives plasma out of the region, further focusing the beam. Fig. 6. The experimental configuration for incoherent backscatter radar mapping of plasma striations, attributed to thermal self-focusing. Radar scans across the interaction region yield two-dimensional measurements of the local electric field strength.
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