COUPLING BETWEEN ELECTRON AND ION WAVES IN ND-LASER BEAT-WAVE EXPERIMENTS

Authors
MOULIN F AMIRANOFF F LABERGE M MARQUES JR CROS B MATTHIEUSSENT G BERNARD D JACQUET F MINE P SPECKA A STENZ C MORA P
Citation
F. Moulin et al., COUPLING BETWEEN ELECTRON AND ION WAVES IN ND-LASER BEAT-WAVE EXPERIMENTS, Physics of plasmas, 1(5), 1994, pp. 1318-1327
Citations number
26
Categorie Soggetti
Phsycs, Fluid & Plasmas
Journal title
Physics of plasmas → ACNP
ISSN journal
1070664X
Volume
1
Issue
5
Year of publication
1994
Part
1
Pages
1318 - 1327
Database
ISI
SICI code
1070-664X(1994)1:5<1318:CBEAIW>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
The beating between two colinear Nd-YLF and Nd-YAG lasers in a homogen eous plasma generates intense relativistic plasma waves associated wit h a high longitudinal electric field of the order of 1 GV/m. It is sho wn that these electron waves couple with ion waves in the regime of mo dulational instability. Electric field amplitude and saturation time o btained by Thomson scattering are in agreement with theoretical predic tions taking this mechanism into account.