THE EFFECT OF INDUCED SPATIAL INCOHERENCE ON THE ABSOLUTE RAMAN INSTABILITY

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作者
GUZDAR, PN [1 ]
TAN, W [1 ]
LEE, YC [1 ]
LIU, CS [1 ]
LEHMBERG, RH [1 ]
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[1] USN,RES LAB,WASHINGTON,DC 20375
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PHYSICS OF FLUIDS B-PLASMA PHYSICS | 1991年 / 3卷 / 03期
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10.1063/1.859873
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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
A numerical and analytical study of the Raman instability in a homogeneous plasma is presented in which the pump has been modeled to include the effects of broad bandwidth and the induced spatial incoherence (ISI) method of beam smoothing. For a time-averaged homogeneous growth rate gammaBAR0 and a bandwidth sigma, there is a significant reduction in Raman backscattering when sigma greater-than-or-similar-to 2-gamma-0, for gammaBAR0(2) near threshold intensity. However, for gammaBAR0(2) very large compared to the threshold, neither ISI nor bandwidth affects Raman scattering.
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