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Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 1482–1485 (1994)

Raman forward scattering of short-pulse high-intensity lasers

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W. B. Mori and C. D. Decker
Departments of Physics and Electrical Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024-1547

D. E. Hinkel
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550

T. Katsouleas
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089

Received 23 August 1993; published in the issue dated 7 March 1994

Raman forward scattering of short-pulse relativistic-intensity laser pulses is investigated. Differential equations which model the instability for arbitrarily large pump strengths are derived. Exact solutions are obtained for a set of physically relevant initial conditions. The growth rate is found to asymptotically approach zero for ultrarelativistic laser intensities. The relevance of the results to present experiments and the limitations of the quasistatic equations are discussed

© 1994 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.1482
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.1482
PACS:
52.40.Nk, 42.55.-f, 42.65.Dr
 
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