Order statistics of high-intensity speckles in stimulated Brillouin scattering and plasma-induced laser beam smoothing

We have studied plasma-induced smoothing due to stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) under the aspect of the extremal statistics of smoothed laser beams. As pointed out in the work by Rose and DuBois (1994 Phys. Rev. Lett. 72 2883), scattered light can be subject to uncontrolled (or even ‘explosive...

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Main Authors: S Hüller, A Porzio, J Robiche
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2013-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/15/2/025003