Plasma-wave production by two laser beams in an inhomogeneous plasma
- 1 September 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 45 (9) , 3836-3839
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1663871
Abstract
The problem of plasma‐wave production by two beating laser beams is examined in that case of a linear density profile plasma. We assume that convection of the plasma wave dominates over dissipation. We show that the energy transferred to the plasma wave strongly depends on initial laser‐beam intensities and on the density gradient scale length. For initial conditions leading to Raman backscattering we obtain an expression for the spatial growth of the reflected beam.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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