On the dominant and subdominant behavior of stimulated Raman and Brillouin scattering driven by nonuniform laser beams

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 4337-4356

  Berger, R L ^a   Still, C H ^a   Williams, E A ^a   Langdon, A B ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; DAMPING; ELECTRONS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA TURBULENCE; RAMAN SCATTERING; TEMPERATURE;

ELECTRON TEMPERATURE; LASER INTENSITY; LINEAR GAIN EXPONENTS; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 0032398231     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.873171     Document Type: Article

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