Nonlinear Ion-Wave Development and Saturation of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering
- 24 May 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 48 (21), 1483-1486
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.48.1483
Abstract
The growth of ion waves at a wave number of has been studied in a C-laser-plasma interaction, by use of Thomson scattering. Time- and wave-number-resolved spectra have been obtained. Harmonic generation has been observed in the ion-wave spectrum. Saturation of the reflectivity is also observed. These results are consistent with nonlinearities in the ion wave affecting both the damping and the interaction length.
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