Response to “Comment on ‘Stimulated Raman scattering of laser from periodically spaced nanoparticles’ ” [Phys. Plasmas 17, 084703 (2010)

Abstract

In their comments, Maraghechi and Chakhmachi [“Comment on ‘Stimulated Raman scattering of laser from periodically spaced nanoparticles’,” Phys. Plasmas 17, 084703 (2010)] overlooked the fact that the electromagnetic mode dispersion relation has two roots: the high frequency root I have plotted and the low frequency root. Maraghechi and Chakhmachi considered the case where pump and sideband waves lie on the high frequency branch of electromagnetic wave dispersion relation. Their result seems to be fine, but the magnitude of growth rate is significantly lower than the one we obtained when pump and decay waves fall on two different branches.