THEORY OF THE RESONANCE MODULATIONAL INSTABILITY OF SHORT LASER-PULSES IN A HOMOGENEOUS PLASMA AND PLASMA CHANNELS

Authors
ANDREEV NE GORBUNOV LM KIRSANOV VI POGOSOVA AA SAKHAROV AS
Citation
Ne. Andreev et al., THEORY OF THE RESONANCE MODULATIONAL INSTABILITY OF SHORT LASER-PULSES IN A HOMOGENEOUS PLASMA AND PLASMA CHANNELS, Plasma physics reports, 22(5), 1996, pp. 379-389
Citations number
29
Categorie Soggetti
Phsycs, Fluid & Plasmas
Journal title
Plasma physics reports → ACNP
ISSN journal
1063780X
Volume
22
Issue
5
Year of publication
1996
Pages
379 - 389
Database
ISI
SICI code
1063-780X(1996)22:5<379:TOTRMI>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
Regimes of the linear stage of the resonance modulational instability that are related to the longitudinal and transverse redistribution of laser radiation, are studied. Conditions are obtained under which the one- and two- dimensional mechanisms for the instability are dominant. It is shown that the plasma wave excited during the onset of the inst ability can have a group velocity smaller than the group velocity of t he pulse.