Control of stimulated Raman scattering in the strongly nonlinear and kinetic regime using spike trains of uneven duration and delay.

Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) in its strongly nonlinear, kinetic regime is controlled by a technique of deterministic, strong temporal modulation and spatial scrambling of laser speckle patterns, called spike trains of uneven duration and delay (STUD) pulses [B. Afeyan and S. Hüller (unpublished)]. Kinetic simulations show that the proper use of STUD pulses decreases SRS reflectivity by more than an order of magnitude over random-phase-plate or induced-spatial-incoherence beams of the same average intensity and comparable bandwidth.

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