Speaker
Dr
Naveen Kumar
(Max-Planck-Institute für Kernphysik)
Description
Stimulated Raman scattering of an ultra-intense laser pulse in plasmas is studied by pertur- batively including the leading order term of the Landau-Lifshitz radiation reaction force in the equation of motion for plasma electrons. In this approximation, radiation reaction force causes phase lag in nonlinear current densities that drive the two Raman sidebands (anti-Stokes and Stokes waves), manifesting itself into the nonlinear mixing of two sidebands. This mixing results in a strong enhancement in the growth of the forward Raman scattering instability.
Primary author
Dr
Naveen Kumar
(Max-Planck-Institute für Kernphysik)
Co-author
Christoph Keitel
(Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)
