LASER-BEAM DEFLECTION INDUCED BY TRANSVERSE-PLASMA FLOW

Authors
HINKEL DE WILLIAMS EA STILL CH
Citation
De. Hinkel et al., LASER-BEAM DEFLECTION INDUCED BY TRANSVERSE-PLASMA FLOW, Physical review letters, 77(7), 1996, pp. 1298-1301
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
77
Issue
7
Year of publication
1996
Pages
1298 - 1301
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1996)77:7<1298:LDIBTF>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
Recent experiments in gas-filled hohlraums suggest that laser beams re fract more than calculated by the hydrocode LASNEX. Three-dimensional simulations show that filamentation or forward Brillouin scattering in flowing plasma causes a deflection in the inferred direction of the a ppropriate magnitude. Simulations also show that temporal beam smoothi ng can suppress this effect.