Stimulated Brillouin backscatter of a short-pulse laser

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 1995, Pages 3447-3460

  Hinkel, D E ^a   Williams, E A ^a   Berger, R L ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BRILLOUIN EFFECT; DOPPLER EFFECT; INSTABILITY GROWTH RATES; ION ACOUSTIC WAVES; LASER RADIATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; PULSED IRRADIATION

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DENSITY (OPTICAL); DOPPLER EFFECT; ELECTRIC SPACE CHARGE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; LASER PULSES; LASERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PLASMAS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CAUSAL ANALYSIS; PULSE LENGTH; RAYLEIGH LENGTH; SHORT PULSE LASER; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN BACKSCATTERING;

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

EID: 0029377432     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: 10897674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.871126     Document Type: Article

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