Control of Nonlinear Optical Processes in High Energy Density Plasmas Using Sub-Picosecond, High-Contrast, Temporal Modulations and Spatial Speckle-Pattern Scrambling

Combining techniques from nonlinear, ultrafast and statistical optics, flexible control of laser-plasma instabilities is attainable. Adaptively using spike trains of uneven duration and delay (STUD pulses), single and multiple crossing beam instabilities become tamed.