Beyond nonlinear saturation of backward Raman amplifiers
Abstract
Backward Raman amplification is limited by relativistic nonlinear dephasing resulting in saturation of the leading spike of the amplified pulse. We employed pump detuning in order to mitigate the relativistic phase mismatch and to overcome the associated saturation. In an amplified pulse can then be reshaped into a monospike pulse with little precursory power ahead of it, with the maximum intensity increasing by a factor of two. Finally, this detuning can be employed advantageously both in regimes where the group velocity dispersion is unimportant and where the dispersion is important but small.
- Authors:
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- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
- Technion Israel Inst. of Technology, Haifa (Israel)
- Inst. of Applied Physics RAS, Nizhnii Novgorod (Russia)
- Princeton Univ., NJ (United States). Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1305352
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1259580
- Grant/Contract Number:
- NA0002948; FA9550-15-1-0391; AC02-09CH11466; HDTRA1-11-1-0037; 15-32-20641
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review E
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 93; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0045
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; short laser-pulses; amplification; plasma; compression; regime
Citation Formats
Barth, Ido, Toroker, Zeev, Balakin, Alexey A., and Fisch, Nathaniel J.. Beyond nonlinear saturation of backward Raman amplifiers. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.93.063210.
Barth, Ido, Toroker, Zeev, Balakin, Alexey A., & Fisch, Nathaniel J.. Beyond nonlinear saturation of backward Raman amplifiers. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.93.063210
Barth, Ido, Toroker, Zeev, Balakin, Alexey A., and Fisch, Nathaniel J.. Mon .
"Beyond nonlinear saturation of backward Raman amplifiers". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.93.063210. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1305352.
@article{osti_1305352,
title = {Beyond nonlinear saturation of backward Raman amplifiers},
author = {Barth, Ido and Toroker, Zeev and Balakin, Alexey A. and Fisch, Nathaniel J.},
abstractNote = {Backward Raman amplification is limited by relativistic nonlinear dephasing resulting in saturation of the leading spike of the amplified pulse. We employed pump detuning in order to mitigate the relativistic phase mismatch and to overcome the associated saturation. In an amplified pulse can then be reshaped into a monospike pulse with little precursory power ahead of it, with the maximum intensity increasing by a factor of two. Finally, this detuning can be employed advantageously both in regimes where the group velocity dispersion is unimportant and where the dispersion is important but small.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevE.93.063210},
journal = {Physical Review E},
number = 6,
volume = 93,
place = {United States},
year = {2016},
month = {6}
}
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