Matter and Radiation at Extremes, Volume. 2, Issue 4, 190(2017)

Stimulated Raman scattering excited by incoherent light in plasma

Yao Zhao1...2, Suming Weng1,2, Min Chen1,2, Jun Zheng1,2, Hongbin Zhuo3,4, and Zhengming Sheng1,24,* |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Key Laboratory for Laser Plasmas (MoE), School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
  • 2Collaborative Innovation Center of IFSA (CICIFSA), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
  • 3College of Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China
  • 4SUPA, Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NG, UK
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    Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) excited by incoherent light is studied via particle-in-cell simulations. It is shown that a large bandwidth of incoherent light can reduce the growth of SRS and electron heating considerably in the linear stage. However, different components of the incoherent light can be coupled by the Langmuir waves, so that stimulated Raman backward scattering can develop. When the bandwidth of incoherent light is larger than the Langmuir wave frequency, forward SRS can be seeded between different components of the incoherent light. The incoherent light can only increase the time duration for nonlinear saturation but cannot diminish the saturation level obviously.

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    Yao Zhao, Suming Weng, Min Chen, Jun Zheng, Hongbin Zhuo, Zhengming Sheng. Stimulated Raman scattering excited by incoherent light in plasma[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2017, 2(4): 190

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    Paper Information

    Category: Research Article

    Received: Mar. 3, 2017

    Accepted: May. 15, 2017

    Published Online: Jan. 17, 2018

    The Author Email: Sheng Zhengming (zmsheng@sjtu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1016/j.mre.2017.06.001

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