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Numerical study of Langmuir wave coalescence in laser-plasma interaction

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Type-III-burst radio signals can be mimicked in the laboratory via laser-plasma interaction. Instead of an electron beam generating Langmuir waves (LW) in the interplanetary medium, the LWs are created by a laser interacting with a millimeter-sized plasma through the stimulated Raman instability. In both cases, the LWs feed the Langmuir decay instability which scatters them in several directions. The resulting LWs may couple to form electromagnetic emission at twice the plasma frequency, which has been detected in the interplanetary medium, and recently in a laboratory laser experiment [Marquès et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 135001 (2020)]. This article presents the first numerical analysis of this laser configuration using particle-in-cell simulations, providing details on the wave spectra that are too difficult to measure in experiments. The role of some parameters is addressed, with a focus on laser intensity, in order to illustrate the behavior of the electromagnetic emission's angular distribution and polarization.
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hal-03172127 , version 1 (17-03-2021)

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F Pérez, F Amiranoff, C Briand, S Depierreux, M Grech, et al.. Numerical study of Langmuir wave coalescence in laser-plasma interaction. Physics of Plasmas, 2021, ⟨10.1063/5.0037028⟩. ⟨hal-03172127⟩
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