MECHANISM OF HOT ELECTRON GENERATION AND STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING IN LASER CAVITY TARGET PLASMA

Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS) and X-ray spectrum emitted from many kinds of targets were experimentally investigated on the Nd:glass laser facility Shenguang-I in Shanghai, China. By theoretical analysis and computer simulation for these experiments, the result showed that the mechanism of hot electron generation in laser cavity target was mainly SRS, according to detailed comparison between the cavity target and the plane target. Other results, such as the energy fraction and temperatures of hot electron, energy and angular distribution and wave spectrum in SRS, were also presented in detail.