Thomson Scattering Computations for Laboratory Plasmas

摘要

The note presents some calculations of the spectrum of Thompson scattering of a laser beam from typical laboratory plasmas. These calculations are numerical results based on theoretical work by Salpeter. The results show that the character of the spectrum depends upon the ratio of the length in the plasma over which the scattered spectrum adds coherently to the Debye length alpha. For small alpha, i.e. alpha