Inverse bremsstrahlung stabilization of noise in the generation of ultrashort intense pulses by backward Raman amplification

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 11, Issue 5 PART 1, 2004, Pages 1931-1937

  Berger, Richard L ^a,b   Clark, Daniel S ^a,b   Solodov, Andrei A ^a   Valeo, Ernest J ^a   Fisch, Nathaniel J ^a  

^a PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKWARD RAMAN AMPLIFIERS; INVERSE BREMSSTRAHLUNG ABSORPTION; LANDAU DAMPING; LANGMUIR NOISE; PUMP LASER BEAMS; RAMAN AMPLIFICATION;

AMPLIFICATION; AXIAL FLOW; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DAMPING; GAIN CONTROL; KINEMATICS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA HEATING; PLASMA WAVES; PUMPING (LASER); RAMAN SCATTERING; THERMAL EFFECTS; WAVE PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

EID: 2942573599     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1695356     Document Type: Article

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