Effect of self-generated magnetic field on the two-plasmon decay instability in a laser-producted plasma

In this paper it has been made a theoretical investigation on the two-plasmon decay instability of laser radiation in the presence of the self-generated magnetic field at the quarter-critical density region in a laser-produced plasma. The Vlasov equation in terms of guiding centre coordinates has been employed to obtain the nonlinear response of electrons in the plasma. The threshold power density of the incident laser radiation for the two-plasmon decay instability is always exceeded in currently employed power densities in laser-target experiments and above the threshold the growth rate of the instability is quite large. It is also noticed that the self-generated magnetic field enhances the threshold to a large extent, thus drastically reducing the growth rate of the instability