Stimulated Brillouin and Raman scattering from a randomized laser beam in large inhomogeneous collisional plasmas. I. Experiment
Experiments have been conducted at the LULI (Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation des Lasers Intenses) multibeam laser facility to study in detail stimulated Brillouin (SBS) and Raman (SRS) scattering from an intense (mean average intensity up to 10{sup 14}W/cm{sup 2}) long (600 ps full width at half-maximum) laser beam interacting with thin exploded plastic foils. The plasmas are well characterized and the vacuum laser intensity distribution is well known due to using either random phase plates or polarization smoothing. Direct and simultaneous Thomson scattering measurements of the associated plasma waves allow us to obtain detailed information about the SBS and SRS temporal evolution and spatial localization. These data are being used to benchmark a statistical model of SBS and SRS from self-focused speckles. The results of this comparison will be presented in a companion paper. The analysis shows that both SBS and SRS are originated from self-focused speckles and reveals that plasma heating has an important effect on speckle self-focusing.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- (US)
- OSTI ID:
- 40205950
- Journal Information:
- Physics of Plasmas, Journal Name: Physics of Plasmas Journal Issue: 11 Vol. 7; ISSN 1070-664X
- Publisher:
- The American Physical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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