Strongly Enhanced Stimulated Brillouin Backscattering in an Electron-Positron Plasma.
Strongly Enhanced Stimulated Brillouin Backscattering in an Electron-Positron Plasma.
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.116.015004
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发表时间:
2015-12
影响因子:
8.6
通讯作者:
M. R. Edwards;N. Fisch;J. Mikhailova
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作者:
M. R. Edwards;N. Fisch;J. Mikhailova
Stimulated Brillouin backscattering of light is shown to be drastically enhanced in electron-positron plasmas, in contrast to the suppression of stimulated Raman scattering. A generalized theory of three-wave coupling between electromagnetic and plasma waves in two-species plasmas with arbitrary mass ratios, confirmed with a comprehensive set of particle-in-cell simulations, reveals violations of commonly held assumptions about the behavior of electron-positron plasmas. Specifically, in the electron-positron limit three-wave parametric interaction between light and the plasma acoustic wave can occur, and the acoustic wave phase velocity differs from its usually assumed value.