Observation of the Langmuir decay instability driven by stimulated Raman scattering

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 3012-3020

  Baker, K L ^a,b,e   Drake, R P ^a,b,f   Bauer, B S ^a,b,g   Estabrook, K G ^a,b   Rubenchik, A M ^a,b   Labaune, C ^c   Baldis, H A ^c   Renard, N ^c,h   Baton, S D ^c   Schifano, E ^c   Michard, A ^c   Seka, W ^d   Bahr, R E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^e SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^h CEA DIF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PLASMA SIMULATION; RAMAN SCATTERING;

LANGMUIR DECAY INSTABILITY; LANGMUIR WAVES; PLASMA CHARACTERIZATION; THOMSON SCATTERING;

PLASMA STABILITY;

EID: 0031208520     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.872436     Document Type: Article

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