Investigation of stimulated rotational Raman scattering of the high-power broadband laser with applied angular dispersion

Smoothing by spectral dispersion （SSD） leads to considerable improvement on laser-irradiation uniformity in far field for fusion lasers. Phase modulation in time and spectral angular dispersion （SAD） across the beam introduced by SSD will affect the stimulated rotational Raman scattering （SRRS） gain in the near field. This paper focuses on the influence of SAD on SRRS gain under different laser conditions. Results show that the SAD will aggravate the generation of SRRS when the laser initial additional phase is constant. On the contrary, the SAD can reduce the SRRS gain if appropriate SSD parameters are adopted when the laser initial additional phase is variable. SSD has a certain application prospect in SRRS suppression.     

The influence of smoothing by spectral dispersion on the beam characteristics in the near field

The influences of SSD on the beam characteristics in the near held are investigated. Results snow that it the SSD parameters are increased, the laser intensity modulation increases while fluence modulation decreases, which is attributed to the temporal and spatial variation of the SSD pulse phase. The variations of intensity and fluence modulations with the SSD parameters are given. The simulation results are presented along with a method for choosing appropriate SSD parameters according to the variations and the requirements of applications.