waves in plasma, particle acceleration, discharge, breakdown, plasma heating
Subject:
Theory of wave-plasma interaction, laser methods of particle acceleration, microwave plasma heating, physics of microwave discharge
Main publications:
S. V. Bulanov, L. M. Kovrizhnykh, A. S. Sakharov, “Regular mechanisms of electron and ion acceleration in the interaction of strong electromagnetic waves with a plasma”, Physics Reports, 186:1 (1990), 1–52
A. S. Sakharov, V. I. Kirsanov, “Theory of Raman scattering for a short ultastrong laser pulse in a rarefied plasma”, Physical Review E, 49:4 (1994), 3274–3282
A. S. Sakharov, V. I. Kirsanov, “Stimulated scattering of relativistically strong radiation in an underdense plasma at high-frequency harmonics”, Physics of Plasmas, 4:9 (1997), 3382–3389
A. S. Sakharov, D. K. Akulina, G. A. Gladkov, M. A. Tereschenko, “Chislennoe modelirovanie spektrov ETs izlucheniya v usloviyakh eksperimentov na stellaratore L-2M”, Fizika plazmy, 32:9 (2006), 794–801
V. A. Ivanov, A. S. Sakharov, M. E. Konyzhev, “Initsiirovanie mikroplazmennykh razryadov na krayu dielektricheskoi plenki, nanesennoi na poverkhnost metalla”, Fizika plazmy, 34:2 (2008), 171–184