title: Breakdown of hot-spot model in determining convective amplification in large homogeneous systems.
abstract: Convective amplification in large homogeneous systems is studied, both analytically and numerically, in the case of a linear diffraction-free stochastic amplifier. Overall amplification does not result from successive amplifications in small scale high intensity hot spots, but from a single amplification in a delocalized mode of the driver field spreading over the whole interaction length. For this model, the hot-spot approach is found to systematically underestimate the gain factor by more than 50%.
authors.affiliation: Centre de Physique Théorique, UMR 7644 du CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France.
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mounaix
authors.forename: Laurent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Divol