Pump depletion and the Raman gap in ignition-scale plasmas

Abstract

Laser-plasma instabilities under ignition conditions for direct-drive inertial confinement fusion are studied using two-dimensional Particle-in-Cell simulations with a combination of in-plane (PP) and out-of-the-plane (SP) lasers. The results show that stimulated Raman side scattering can induce significant pump depletion and form a gap in the Raman scattered light spectra that have been observed in experiments.

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