Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Reduced Brillouin scattering from multiline CO/sub 2/ laser interaction with a plasma

Journal Article · · Phys. Rev. A; (United States)
Experimental verification of reduced stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is reported for multiline CO/sub 2/ laser radiation interacting with high-intensity plasma. For long-pulse (40-nsec) irradiation SBS was observed to decrease from 15% to a negligible level when the spectrum of the incident laser pulse was changed from 1 to 2 more well-separated frequencies. Results for both long- and short-pulse multiline laser conditions are in general accord with the expected behavior for varying ..delta omega../..gamma../sub 0/, where ..delta omega.. is the frequency separation and ..gamma../sub 0/ is the homogeneous growth rate.
Research Organization:
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G7, Canada
OSTI ID:
5011954
Journal Information:
Phys. Rev. A; (United States), Journal Name: Phys. Rev. A; (United States) Vol. 26:2; ISSN PLRAA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Similar Records

Brillouin scattering of multiline laser light in a flowing plasma corona
Journal Article · Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1983 · Phys. Fluids; (United States) · OSTI ID:5732223

Dependence of stimulated Brillouin scattering on target material and f number
Journal Article · Mon Nov 30 23:00:00 EST 1981 · Phys. Fluids; (United States) · OSTI ID:5925899

Experimental observation and suppression of transverse stimulated Brillouin scattering in large optical components
Journal Article · Thu Nov 30 23:00:00 EST 1989 · Journal of the Optical Society of America, Part B: Optical Physics; (USA) · OSTI ID:7169802