INTERPLAY BETWEEN LASER-PLASMA INSTABILITIES

Experiments have exhibited a very rich interplay between laser plasma instabilities. We examine two simple examples to illustrate how laser- driven waves can either directly influence one another or exhibit corr elated behavior. Related experiments are discussed. Scaling based on i nstability gain using linear Landau damping rates is shown to be gener ally inadequate. Lastly we note that modified electron distributions d ue to collisional and nonlocal heat transport can be important to incl ude in the zeroth order description.