Abstract
The effect of shadowing the rear layers of short laser seeds by the seed leading layers in powerful backward Raman amplifiers (BRA) was described. The results show that the shadowing results in the pumped pulse sliding along the manifold of self-similar solutions corresponding to seeds of negligible duration. Various formulas for parameters of BRA output pulses, that took sliding into account, were derived. The results were also found to be of interest for the general theory of resonant three-wave interactions.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 036401 |
Pages (from-to) | 036401-1-036401-6 |
Journal | Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics |
Volume | 69 |
Issue number | 3 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 2004 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
- Statistics and Probability
- Condensed Matter Physics