Role of spontaneous thermal emissions in inflationary laser Raman instability

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Eliasson, B. and Dieckmann, M. E. and Jiang, X. Y. and Sheng, Z. M. and Liu, C. S. (2024) Role of spontaneous thermal emissions in inflationary laser Raman instability. Physics of Plasmas, 31 (5). 053303. ISSN 1070-664X (https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0188949)

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Abstract

The role of thermal fluctuations on the stimulated Raman backscattering (SRBS) instability is investigated by means of Vlasov and particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations in a regime of strong linear Landau damping of the Langmuir wave. The instability is initially convective and amplifies thermal noise, leading to a low-amplitude back-scattered laser sideband. Linear Landau damping of the Langmuir sideband modifies and flattens the electron velocity distribution function at the resonant velocity, leading to a gradual decrease of the Landau damping rate and an increase of the convective amplification. The Langmuir wave traps electrons resulting in a rapid nonlinear absolute instability and large amplitude flashes of backscattered light off large amplitude Langmuir waves with trapped electrons, leading to the production of hot electrons. Conditions for simulating realistic thermal noise with Vlasov and PIC simulations are discussed and defined.

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Eliasson, B. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6039-1574, Dieckmann, M. E., Jiang, X. Y., Sheng, Z. M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8823-9993 and Liu, C. S.;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:88842
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    2 May 2024
    Published
    21 April 2024
    Accepted
    25 November 2023
    Submitted
    Subjects:Science > Physics
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:22 Apr 2024 07:27
    Last modified:14 Dec 2024 01:36
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/88842
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