Regions for Brillouin seed pulse growth in relativistic laser-plasma interaction

2012 
Parametric plasma processes received renewed interest in the context of generating ultraintense and ultrashort laser pulses up to the exawatt-zetawatt regime. For Brillouin scattering and seed pulse amplification at high intensities, the strong coupling regime is of special interest. The intensity-driven low-frequency modes depend on the amplitudes of the laser fields. It is investigated here how these modes develop in the relativistic regime. Then, a unified treatment of Raman and Brillouin processes becomes necessary. Assuming circular polarization, it is shown that with increasing intensity an overlap of the originally different Raman, Brillouin, and modulational instability branches occurs. Numerical simulations with a linearized Maxwell-fluid code confirm the analytically predicted behavior.
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