Effect of pump depletion and self-focusing on stimulated Brillouin scattering process in laser-plasma interactions

S. T. Mahmoud; R. P. Sharma; A. Kumar; S. Yadav

doi:10.1063/1.873332

Effect of pump depletion and self-focusing on stimulated Brillouin scattering process in laser-plasma interactions

S. T. Mahmoud, R. P. Sharma, A. Kumar, S. Yadav

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This paper presents the study of the stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) process when the self-focusing effects of the pump and scattered laser beams are taken into account in three dimensions within the paraxial ray approximations. Integrated SBS reflectivity is found to exhibit a maximum value at an optimum SBS gain. The reflectivity with pump depletion is less than without pump depletion and several orders of magnitude lower than the usual three-wave interaction case. The effect of the statistical distribution of the laser beam on the SBS reflectivity has also been discussed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	927-931
Number of pages	5
Journal	Physics of Plasmas
Volume	6
Issue number	2-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.873332
Publication status	Published - Mar 1999
Externally published	Yes

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Effect of pump depletion and self-focusing on stimulated Brillouin scattering process in laser-plasma interactions

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