Excitation of nonlinear two-dimensional wake waves in radially nonuniform plasma.
It is shown that an undesirable curvature of the wave front of a two-dimensional nonlinear wake wave, excited in uniform plasma by a relativistic charged bunch or laser pulse, may be compensated by radial change of the equilibrium plasma density.
Khachatryan
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Yerevan Physics Institute, Alikhanian Brothers Street 2, Yerevan 375036, Armenia.