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.
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.
