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PHYSICS OF PLASMAS
Volume 25, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.5011417
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In this paper, the focusing effect on backward Raman amplification in plasma is investigated. A fluid model, used to simulate the backward Raman amplification and including the relativistic, ponderomotive, and thermal self-focusing and the mutual-focusing effect simultaneously, is proposed and investigated. The focusing effect is shown to severely distort the profile of the seed when the seed intensity was as high as 1017 W/cm(2). Reducing the plasma density can relax the focusing effect, but at the cost of decreasing the amplification efficiency. Changing the profile of the seed has a limited effect on mitigating the focusing effect. A Gaussian profile of the pump and a defocusing shape of the plasma density seem to be an effective way to mitigate the focusing effect without decreasing the amplification efficiency. Published by AIP Publishing.
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