Stimulated Brillouin Scattering from Helium-Hydrogen Plasmas

摘要

A study of the stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in helium-hydrogen plasmas has been performed using a gas jet at the Janus Laser Facility. We observe three regions of reflectivity by varying the probe intensity from 10~(14) to 10~(16): a saturated region, a linear region, and a region near the threshold for SBS. In the linear regime we find that adding small amounts of hydrogen to a helium plasma reduces the SBS reflectivity by a factor of 4.