In this paper, we study a Zakharov system coupled to an electrondiffusion equation in order to describe laser-plasma interactions. Starting fromthe Vlasov-Maxwell system, we derive a nonlinear Schrödinger like system which takes into account the energy exchanged between the plasma waves and the electrons via Landau damping. Two existence theorems are established in a subsonic regime. Using a time-splitting, spectral discretizations for the Zakharov system and a finite difference scheme for the electron diffusion equation, we perform numerical simulations and show how Landau damping works quantitatively.
