Observations of stimulated Brillouin scattering and enhanced ion wave damping in a z-pinch plasma
- 1 March 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 53 (3) , 1409-1414
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.330976
Abstract
The backscattered spectrum from short CO2 laser pulses incident upon an overdense z‐pinch plasma has been measured. A clear red shift and an exponential growth in the reflectivity to a saturated value of approximately 4% has been observed. The results suggest the presence of strong damping on the scattering ion wave in the saturation region, consistent with predictions of an ion trapping model.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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