Laser Beam Deflection Induced by Transverse Plasma Flow
- 12 August 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 77 (7) , 1298-1301
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.77.1298
Abstract
Recent experiments in gas-filled hohlraums suggest that laser beams refract more than calculated by the hydrocode LASNEX. Three-dimensional simulations show that filamentation or forward Brillouin scattering in flowing plasma causes a deflection in the inferred direction of the appropriate magnitude. Simulations also show that temporal beam smoothing can suppress this effect.Keywords
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