This Letter presents first experimental results of the laser imprint reduction in fusion scale
plasmas using a low-density foam layer. The experiments were conducted on the LIL facility …

Beam spray measurements suggest thresholds that are a factor of≈ 2 to 15× less than
expected based on the filamentation figure of merit often quoted in the literature. In this …

We report results and modelling of an experiment performed at the Target Area West Vulcan
laser facility, aimed at investigating laser–plasma interaction in conditions that are of interest …

Crossed beam energy transfer, CBET, is investigated by taking into account the speckle
structure of smoothed laser beams that overlap in a plasma with an inhomogeneous flow …

In a plasma, the ponderomotive force of an inhomogeneous electromagnetic field expels
plasma from regions of high intensity. When a laser propagates through a plasma, this force …

Thomson scattering has been used to investigate the nonlinear evolution of electron plasma
waves (EPWs) generated by stimulated Raman scattering (SRS). Two complementary …

Higher levels of hot electrons from the two-plasmon–decay instability are observed when
smoothing by spectral dispersion (SSD) is turned off in directly driven inertial confinement …

We derive the analytical dispersion relation of a high-energy laser beam's backward
stimulated Brillouin scattering (BSBS) in a hot plasma, that accounts both for the random …

Laser–plasma interaction (LPI) physics is one the major issues for the realization of inertial
fusion. Parametric instabilities may be driven by the incident laser beams during their …

We present results of two-dimensional simulations of the stimulated Brillouin scattering
(SBS) of an optically smoothed laser beam propagating in an expanding plasma. In the …