Study of laser plasma interactions using an Eulerian Vlasov code Original Research Article

We present a one-dimensional Eulerian Vlasov code for performing kinetic simulations of laser-plasma interactions. We use the code to study parametric instabilities, in particular stimulated Raman scattering. For conditions similar to those of single-hot-spot experiments, we find that kinetic effects are important in the saturation of this instability. Work is underway to extend the code to 112 and 2D (resolving y and py) and to parallelize it.