Plasma optics in the context of high intensity lasers

Peng H.; Marquès J.-R.; Lancia L.; Amiranoff F.; Berger R. L.; Weber S.; Riconda C.

doi:10.1063/1.5091550

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Peng H., Marquès J.-R., Lancia L., Amiranoff F., Berger R. L., Weber S., Riconda C.. Plasma optics in the context of high intensity lasers[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2019, 4(6): 065401. doi: 10.1063/1.5091550

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Peng H., Marquès J.-R., Lancia L., Amiranoff F., Berger R. L., Weber S., Riconda C.. Plasma optics in the context of high intensity lasers[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2019, 4(6): 065401. doi: 10.1063/1.5091550

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Plasma optics in the context of high intensity lasers

doi: 10.1063/1.5091550

Peng H.^{1, 2, 3},
Marquès J.-R.⁴,
Lancia L.^4
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Amiranoff F.^5
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Berger R. L.^6
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Weber S.^{7, 8},
Riconda C.^1
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LULI, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, École Polytechnique, CEA, F-75252 Paris, France
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Department of Optical Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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Laser Fusion Research Center, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang 621900, China
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LULI, CNRS, École Polytechnique, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Sorbonne Université, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
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LULI, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, École Polytechnique, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-75252 Paris, France
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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Institute of Physics of the ASCR, ELI-Beamlines Project, 18221 Prague, Czech Republic
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School of Science, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China

Received Date: 2019-02-03
Accepted Date: 2019-06-23

Available Online: 2021-04-13

Publish Date: 2019-11-15

Abstract

Abstract

The use of plasmas provides a way to overcome the low damage threshold of classical solid-state based optical materials, which is the main limitation encountered in producing and manipulating intense and energetic laser pulses. Plasmas can directly amplify or alter the characteristics of ultra-short laser pulses via the three-wave coupling equations for parametric processes. The strong-coupling regime of Brillouin scattering (sc-SBS) is of particular interest: recent progress in this domain is presented here. This includes the role of the global phase in the spatio-temporal evolution of the three-wave coupled equations for backscattering that allows a description of the coupling dynamics and the various stages of amplification from the initial growth to the so-called self-similar regime. The understanding of the phase evolution allows control of the directionality of the energy transfer via the phase relation between the pulses. A scheme that exploits this coupling in order to use the plasma as a wave plate is also suggested.

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