title: Control of stimulated Raman scattering in the strongly nonlinear and kinetic regime using spike trains of uneven duration and delay.
abstract: 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of laser speckle patterns, called spike trains of uneven duration and delay (STUD) pulses [B. Afeyan and S. Hüller (unpublished)].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.
authors.affiliation: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Albright
authors.affiliation: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.affiliation: Polymath Research, Inc., Pleasanton, California 94566, USA.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Afeyan