White-light parametric instabilities in plasmas

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Bingham, R. and Santos, J.E. and Silva, L.O. (2007) White-light parametric instabilities in plasmas. Physical Review Letters, 98. ISSN 1079-7114 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.235001)

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Abstract

Parametric instabilities driven by partially coherent radiation in plasmas are described by a generalized statistical Wigner-Moyal set of equations, formally equivalent to the full wave equation, coupled to the plasma fluid equations. A generalized dispersion relation for stimulated Raman scattering driven by a partially coherent pump field is derived, revealing a growth rate dependence, with the coherence width sigma of the radiation field, scaling with 1/sigma for backscattering (three-wave process), and with 1/sigma1/2 for direct forward scattering (four-wave process). Our results demonstrate the possibility to control the growth rates of these instabilities by properly using broadband pump radiation fields.

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Bingham, R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9843-7635, Santos, J.E. and Silva, L.O.;
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