Forward Raman instability and electron acceleration
Abstract
It is demonstrated by experiments and supporting particle simulations that the forward Raman instability is capable of producing extremely high-energy electrons in an underdense plasma. The instability has a high saturation level for the electrostatic wave component. Its consequences and applications to the laser electron accelerator and the laser-fusion pellet preheat are discussed.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- November 1981
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.47.1285
- Bibcode:
- 1981PhRvL..47.1285J
- Keywords:
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- Electron Acceleration;
- High Energy Electrons;
- High Temperature Plasmas;
- Laser Plasma Interactions;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Stability;
- Raman Spectra;
- Backscattering;
- Carbon Dioxide Lasers;
- Computerized Simulation;
- Electron Energy;
- Electrostatic Waves;
- Laser Fusion;
- Plasma Density;
- Pulsed Lasers;
- Relativistic Electron Beams;
- Thermal Plasmas;
- Plasma Physics;
- 42.65.Cq;
- 52.35.Mw;
- 52.25.Ps;
- 52.60.+h;
- Nonlinear phenomena: waves wave propagation and other interactions