The spatial location of laser-driven, forward-propagating waves in a National-Ignition-Facility-relevant plasma

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作者
Cobble, JA
Fernández, JC
Kurnit, NA
Montgomery, DS
Johnson, RP
Renard-Le Galloudec, N
Lopez, MR
机构
[1] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
[2] Univ Paris 06, Ecole Polytech, Lab Utilisat Lasers Intenses, CEA,CNRS,Unite Mixte 7605, F-75252 Paris 05, France
[3] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
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10.1063/1.873800
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O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
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070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
Ion acoustic and electron plasma waves, associated with backward-propagating stimulated Brillouin scattering and stimulated Raman scattering, have been diagnosed in a long-scale-length, nearly homogenous plasma with transverse flow. Thomson scattered light from a probe beam is employed to show that these waves are well localized in space and for a time much shorter than the laser pulse duration. These plasma conditions are relevant to hohlraum design for the National Ignition Facility inertial confinement fusion laser system. [R. Sawicki et al., Fusion Technol. 34, 1097 (1998)]. (C) 2000 American Institute of Physics. [S1070-664X(00)03001-9].
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