Increased saturated levels of stimulated brillouin scattering of a laser by seeding a plasma with an external light source

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2252-2255

  Fernández, Juan C ^a   Bauer, B S ^a,c   Bradley, K S ^a,b   Cobble, J A ^a   Montgomery, D S ^a   Watt, R G ^a   Bezzerides, B ^a   Estabrook, K G ^b   Focia, R ^a,d   Goldman, S R ^a   Harris, D B ^a   Lindman, E L ^a   Rose, H A ^a   Wallace, J ^a   Wilde, B H ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LASER BEAMS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASMA FLOW; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

HOHLRAUM; LASER ENTRANCE HOLE; LASER REFLECTIVITY; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

EID: 0032516957     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.2252     Document Type: Article

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