Stimulated Brillouin back-scattering losses in weakly inhomogeneous laser-produced plasmas
- 14 December 1979
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
- Vol. 12 (12) , L145-L149
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/12/12/001
Abstract
Studies of the reflection from a plane solid target plasma produced with a 1 TW iodine laser ( lambda =1.3 mu m) at pulse durations of 300 ps are presented. The specularly reflected and the back-scattered light were observed separately for a wide range of intensities and with spot sizes of 60 mu m. Stimulated Brillouin scattering was identified as the main mechanism for back-scattering with saturation at 20-30% reflection.Keywords
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