Effect of electron-ion collision on stimulated Raman backward scattering （SRBS） spectrum are investigated by numerical simulations. In the given parameters and plasma condition, the growth rates of SRBS are found to strongly depend on the electron density, and the gap in the SRBS spectrum corresponding to the high electron density could be explained by the collisional damping. In the low density region, a much higher Landau damping estimated by the linear theory makes the collisional damping negligible. However, the present results show that, collisions play a even more important role than known in the linear theory.
A three-wave interaction （3WI） code is developed to study the stimulated Raman scattering （SRS） in both absolute and convective regimes. In the simulations, the time and spatial evolutions of a plasma wave are described by temporal growth rate and spatial factor, respectively. The spatial factors in different phases and different instability regimes are investigated. It is found that the spatial factor is caused by the finite velocity of the pump wave in the first phase and by damping in the last phase. With inclusion of the spatial factor, the temporal growth rate decreases and the threshold for SRS for a finite frequency mismatch increases. Meanwhile, the effects of wave frequency mismatch on the temporal growth rate are also discussed.
Stimulated Brillouin scattering is studied by numerically solving the Vlasov Maxwell system. A cascade of stim- ulated Brillouin scattering can occur when a linearly polarized laser pulse propagates in a plasma. It is found that a stimulated Brillouin scattering cascade can reduce the scattering and increase the transmission of light, as well as intro- duce a bursting behaviour in the evolution of the laser-plasma interaction. The bursting time in the reflectivity is found to be less than half the ion acoustic period. The ion temperature can affect the stimulated Brillouin scattering cascade, which can repeat several times at low ion temperatures and can be completely eliminated at high ion temperatures. For stimulated Brillouin scattering saturation, higher-harmonic generation and wave wave interaction of the excited ion acoustic waves can restrict the amplitude of the latter. In addition, stimulated Brillouin scattering cascade can restrict. the amplitude of the scattered light.
We discuss stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) and stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) under the convective instability condition with a one-dimensional three-wave interaction (3WI) model.Using linear theory,we deduce the temporal growth rate,gain exponent,and reflectivity of the backward scattered wave in a finite interaction region.We find that the growth rate is not only determined by the laser intensity and plasma density and temperature,but also related to the spatial gain.The length of the interaction region is important to the gain exponent and backscattering level.We simulate the developments and evolutions of SRS and SBS based on the 3WI equations.Our numerical results consist with the linear theory.
HAO LiangLIU ZhanJuZHENG ChunYangXIANG JiangFENG WuHU XiaoYanLI Bin
The propagation of light waves in an underdense plasma is studied using one-dimensional Vlasov-Maxwell numerical simulation. It is found that the light waves can be scattered by electron plasma waves as well as other heavily and weakly damping electron wave modes, corresponding to stimulated Raman and Brilluoin-like scatterings. The stimu- lated electron acoustic wave scattering is also observed as a high scattering level. High frequency plasma wave scattering is also observed. These electron electrostatic wave modes are due to a non-thermal electron distribution produced by the wave-particle interactions. The collision effects on stimulated electron acoustic wave and the laser intensity effects on the scattering spectra are also investigated.
