Saturation of Beat-Excited Plasma Waves by Electrostatic Mode Coupling
- 16 June 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 56 (24) , 2629-2632
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.56.2629
Abstract
The nature of plasma waves which are resonantly excited when two laser beams beat in a rippled-density plasma is explored both theoretically and experimentally. A theoretical model is presented which, for commonly encountered experimental parameters, predicts rapid saturation of the high—phase-velocity beat wave at an amplitude below that expected for relativistic detuning. Results of experimental studies of this process are presented.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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