Laser light triggers increased Raman amplification in the regime of nonlinear Landau damping

S. Depierreux (), V. Yahia, C. Goyon, G. Loisel, P. -E. Masson-Laborde, N. Borisenko, A. Orekhov, O. Rosmej, T. Rienecker and C. Labaune
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S. Depierreux: CEA, DAM, DIF
V. Yahia: CEA, DAM, DIF
C. Goyon: CEA, DAM, DIF
G. Loisel: LULI, UMR 7605 CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique-CEA-Université Paris VI
P. -E. Masson-Laborde: CEA, DAM, DIF
N. Borisenko: P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, 53 Leninskii Prospect
A. Orekhov: P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, 53 Leninskii Prospect
O. Rosmej: Helmotzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GSI
T. Rienecker: Helmotzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GSI
C. Labaune: LULI, UMR 7605 CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique-CEA-Université Paris VI

Nature Communications, 2014, vol. 5, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: Abstract Stimulated Raman backscattering (SRS) has many unwanted effects in megajoule-scale inertially confined fusion (ICF) plasmas. Moreover, attempts to harness SRS to amplify short laser pulses through backward Raman amplification have achieved limited success. In high-temperature fusion plasmas, SRS usually occurs in a kinetic regime where the nonlinear response of the Langmuir wave to the laser drive and its host of complicating factors make it difficult to predict the degree of amplification that can be achieved under given experimental conditions. Here we present experimental evidence of reduced Landau damping with increasing Langmuir wave amplitude and determine its effects on Raman amplification. The threshold for trapping effects to influence the amplification is shown to be very low. Above threshold, the complex SRS dynamics results in increased amplification factors, which partly explains previous ICF experiments. These insights could aid the development of more efficient backward Raman amplification schemes in this regime.

Date: 2014
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