COUPLING BETWEEN ELECTRON AND ION WAVES IN ND-LASER BEAT-WAVE EXPERIMENTS

被引:23
作者
MOULIN, F
AMIRANOFF, F
LABERGE, M
MARQUES, JR
CROS, B
MATTHIEUSSENT, G
BERNARD, D
JACQUET, F
MINE, P
SPECKA, A
STENZ, C
MORA, P
机构
[1] UNIV PARIS 11, LPGP, CNRS, F-91405 ORSAY, FRANCE
[2] ECOLE POLYTECH, LPNHE, CNRS, F-91128 PALAISEAU, FRANCE
[3] UNIV ORLEANS, GREMI, F-45000 ORLEANS, FRANCE
[4] ECOLE POLYTECH, CPHT, CNRS, F-91128 PALAISEAU, FRANCE
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D O I
10.1063/1.870730
中图分类号
O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
学科分类号
070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
The beating between two colinear Nd-YLF and Nd-YAG lasers in a homogeneous plasma generates intense relativistic plasma waves associated with a high longitudinal electric field of the order of 1 GV/m. It is shown that these electron waves couple with ion waves in the regime of modulational instability. Electric field amplitude and saturation time obtained by Thomson scattering are in agreement with theoretical predictions taking this mechanism into account.
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页数:10
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