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- Title
Competition among the two-plasmon decay of backscattered light, filamentation of the electron-plasma wave and side stimulated Raman scattering.
- Authors
Pan, K. Q.; Li, Z. C.; Guo, L.; Gong, T.; Li, S. W.; Yang, D.; Zheng, C. Y.; Zhang, B. H.; He, X. T.
- Abstract
Competition among the two-plasmon decay (TPD) of backscattered light of stimulated Raman scattering (SRS), filamentation of the electron-plasma wave (EPW) and forward side SRS is investigated by two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. Our previous work [K. Q. Pan et al., Nucl. Fusion 58, 096035 (2018)] showed that in a plasma with the density near 1/10 of the critical density, the backscattered light would excite the TPD, which results in suppression of the backward SRS. However, this work further shows that when the laser intensity is so high (> 1016 W/cm²) that the backward SRS cannot be totally suppressed, filamentation of the EPW and forward side SRS will be excited. Then the TPD of the backscattered light only occurs in the early stage and is suppressed in the latter stage. Electron distribution functions further show that trapped-particle-modulation instability should be responsible for filamentation of the EPW. This research can promote the understanding of hot-electron generation and SRS saturation in inertial confinement fusion experiments.
- Subjects
INERTIAL confinement fusion; STIMULATED Raman scattering; RAMAN scattering; BRILLOUIN scattering; PARTICLE physics; ELECTRON distribution; PLASMA density
- Publication
High Power Laser Science & Engineering, 2023, Vol 11, p1
- ISSN
2095-4719
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/hpl.2023.65