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Session NO4: Laser-Plasma Interactions

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Chair: David S. Montgomery, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Room: Reunion B


Wednesday, November 19, 2008
9:45AM - 9:57AM

NO4.00001: Saturation of backward stimulated Raman scattering in kinetic regime: Wavefront bowing and trapped particle self-focusing of electron plasma waves
L. Yin , B.J. Albright , K.J. Bowers , W. Daughton , H.A. Rose

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
9:57AM - 10:09AM

NO4.00002: Single speckle SRS threshold as determined by electron trapping, collisions and speckle duration
Harvey Rose , William Daughton , Lin Yin , Bruce Langdon

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
10:09AM - 10:21AM

NO4.00003: Kinetic Dispersion of the Langmuir Decay Instability and its Relevance for Ignition Plasmas
J.P. Palastro , L. Divol , P. Michel , E.A. Williams , D. Strozzi

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
10:21AM - 10:33AM

NO4.00004: Experimental demonstration of optical mitigation techniques for simulated backscatter in ignition relevant plasmas
D.H. Froula , L. Divol , T. Doeppner , R. London , R. Berger , P. Michel , S. Dixit , J.S. Ross , P. Neumayer , N. Meezan , L. Suter , S.H. Glenzer

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
10:33AM - 10:45AM

NO4.00005: Design and analysis of high-density laser-plasma interaction experiments
Richard London , Dustin Froula , Richard Berger , Laurent Divol , Paul Neumayer , Siegfried Glenzer , Laurence Suter

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
10:45AM - 10:57AM

NO4.00006: Simulation of Stimulated Raman Scattering from Gas-filled Hohlraums
Richard Berger , L. Divol , R.A. London , D.H. Froula , L.J. Suter , P. Michel , S. Dixit , S.H. Glenzer

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
10:57AM - 11:09AM

NO4.00007: Stimulated backscatter in a speckled laser beam
Edward Williams , Laurent Divol

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
11:09AM - 11:21AM

NO4.00008: Self-focusing induced reduction of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering for the case of monospeckle laser beams interacting with a plasma
Paul-Edouard Masson-Laborde , Stefan Hueller , Denis Pesme , Pascal Loiseau , Christine Labaune , Heidi Bandulet

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
11:21AM - 11:33AM

NO4.00009: Three-dimensional steady-state analysis of laser-plasma instabilities in NIF hohlraum designs
Pierre Michel , Laurent Divol , Ed Williams , John Palastro , Debbie Callahan , Larry Suter

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
11:33AM - 11:45AM

NO4.00010: Dependence of simulated laser reflectivity on gain in National Ignition Campaign targets
D.E. Hinkel , A.B. Langdon , C.H. Still , D.J. Strozzi , E.A. Williams

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
11:45AM - 11:57AM

NO4.00011: Precision Scattered-Laser-Light Spectroscopy in Direct-Drive Implosions
D.H. Edgell , W. Seka , J.A. Delettrez , R.S. Craxton , V.N. Goncharov , I.V. Igumenshchev , J.F. Myatt , A.V. Maximov , R.W. Short , T.C. Sangster , R.E. Bahr

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
11:57AM - 12:09PM

NO4.00012: Different Aspects of the Two-Plasmon-Decay Instability in Direct-Drive ICF
W. Seka , D.H. Edgell , J.F. Myatt , A.V. Maximov , R.W. Short , D. Russell , D. DuBois

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
12:09PM - 12:21PM

NO4.00013: Two-Plasmon-Decay Hot-Electron Distributions from Bremsstrahlung Measurements
J.F. Myatt , D.H. Edgell , W. Seka , A.V. Maximov , R.W. Short

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
12:21PM - 12:33PM

NO4.00014: Observation of LPI Thresholds for the Nike Laser
J.L. Weaver , J. Oh , B. Afeyan , M. Charbonneau-Lefort , L. Phillips , J. Seely , D. Kehne , C. Brown , S. Obenschain , A.J. Schmitt , U. Feldman , G. Holland , R.H. Lehmberg , E. Mclean , C. Manka

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
12:33PM - 12:45PM

NO4.00015: Laser Plasma Instability (LPI) Driven Light Scattering Measurements with Nike KrF Laser
J. Oh , J.L. Weaver , D.M. Kehne , S.P. Obenschain , E.A. McLean , R.H. Lehmberg

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