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PHYSICS OF PLASMAS
卷 19, 期 7, 页码 -出版社
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.4736856
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- Fusion Energy Sciences Fellowship
- Program on Plasma Science and Technology (PPST) at Princeton University
Raman amplification is a resonant process in which the energy of a long pump pulse is transferred to a short seed pulse by a plasma wave. There has been a significant effort to identify a window in parameter space within which the interaction is expected to be highly efficient and not degraded by competing instabilities or excessive damping. However, experimental results have thus far failed to approach the theoretical limits. Recent amplified signal spectra display a characteristic blue shift, which evolves within the seed pulse duration and suggests that the mechanism responsible for this shift is also limiting amplification in these experiments. We present the evidence and explore different hypotheses for the origins of the shift-namely localization in density minima along the axis of laser propagation induced by an ion acoustic wave that could arise from the Langmuir decay instability, filamentation which could also modulate the plasma density but in the plane transverse to laser propagation, particle trapping, and additional ionization induced by the amplified seed field. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4736856]
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