American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters, 14(84), p. 3085-3088, 2000
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.84.3085
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We report the observation of resonant self-trapping and enhanced laser-plasma heating resulting from propagation of high intensity Bessel beams in neutral gas. The enhancement in absorption and plasma heating is directly correlated to the spatial trapping of laser radiation.