The potential for time compression of ultraintense laser pulses in plasma based on nonlinear interactions between waves during backward stimulated Raman scattering is analyzed analytically and numerically. The optimal conditions for obtaining a maximal energy conversion coefficient of 10-ps laser pulses to the energy of 100-fs Stokes pulses are found.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)98-105
Number of pages8
JournalOptics and Spectroscopy (English translation of Optika i Spektroskopiya)
Volume102
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2007

    Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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