The 4th International Conference on Matter and Radiation at Extremes (ICMRE 2019)

340 / 2019-02-26 23:03:04

Collective Absorption of Laser Radiation in Plasma in Shock Ignition Conditions

inertial confinement fusion,laser plasma,hot electrons

Plenary track > Laser and Particle Beam Fusion

We study laser plasma interaction processes in Shock Ignition conditions with large scale kinetic simulations and identified particular zones of plasma where laser absorption takes place and hot electrons are produced. Strong laser reflection due to the process of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) and significant collisionless absorption related to the process of stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) near and below the quarter critical density have been observed and analyzed. They are induced by strong laser beam self-focusing and modulational instabilities. These processes are complemented with the parametric decay instability and resonant excitation of plasma waves near the critical density. All these processes result in excitation of high amplitude electron plasma waves and electron acceleration. The spectrum of scattered radiation is significantly modified by the secondary parametric decay instability, which provides information on the spatial localization of nonlinear absorption and hot electron characteristics.