NEAR-FORWARD STIMULATED BRILLOUIN-SCATTERING

Authors
MCKINSTRIE CJ LI JS KANAEV AV
Citation
Cj. Mckinstrie et al., NEAR-FORWARD STIMULATED BRILLOUIN-SCATTERING, Physics of plasmas, 4(12), 1997, pp. 4227-4231
Citations number
13
Journal title
Physics of plasmas → ACNP
ISSN journal
1070664X
Volume
4
Issue
12
Year of publication
1997
Pages
4227 - 4231
Database
ISI
SICI code
1070-664X(1997)4:12<4227:NSB>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
The spatiotemporal evolution of near-forward stimulated Brillouin scat tering (SBS) is studied in detail. For large scattering angles SBS gro ws and saturates as a three-wave instability. For small scattering ang les SBS begins to grow as a three-wave instability, then continues to grow and saturates as a four-wave instability. Expressions for the sat uration time and steady-state gain exponent of SBS are derived for lar ge and small scattering angles. (C) 1997 American Institute of Physics .