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Statistical theory of the broadband two-plasmon decay instability
Rusko T. Ruskov, Robert Bingham, Luis O. Silva +4
There is renewed interest in direct-drive inertial confinement fusion, following the milestone December 2022 3.15 MJ ignition result on the National Ignition Facility. A key obstac…
Essential criteria for efficient pulse amplification via Raman and Brillouin scattering
R. M. G. M. Trines, E. P. Alves, E. Webb +14
Raman and Brillouin amplification are two schemes for amplifying and compressing short laser pulses in plasma. Analytical models have already been derived for both schemes, but the…
Boosting the performance of Brillouin amplification at sub-quarter-critical densities via reduction of parasitic Raman scattering
R. M. G. M. Trines, E. P. Alves, K. A. Humphrey +6
Raman and Brillouin amplification of laser pulses in plasma have been shown to produce picosecond pulses of petawatt power. In previous studies, filamentation of the probe pulse ha…
Plasma wakefields driven by intense, broadband, incoherent electromagnetic radiation
R. M. G. M. Trines, L. O. Silva, J. T. Mendonça +3
Non-linear wave-driven processes in plasmas are normally described by either a monochromatic pump wave that couples to other monochromatic waves, or as a random phase wave coupling…
A robust plasma-based laser amplifier via stimulated Brillouin scattering
Paulo Alves, Raoul Trines, Kathryn Humphrey +6
It is shown here that Brillouin amplification can be used to produce picosecond pulses of petawatt power. Brillouin amplification is far more resilient to fluctuations in the laser…
Production of picosecond, kilojoule, petawatt laser pulses via Raman amplification of nanosecond pulses
R. Trines, F. Fiuza, R. Bingham +4
Raman amplification in plasma has been promoted as a means of compressing picosecond optical laser pulses to femtosecond duration to explore the intensity frontier. Here we show fo…