Parametric instabilities in strongly relativistic, plane polarized electromagnetic waves
Abstract
The authors investigate the stability of long wavelength, plane polarized electromagnetic waves when the oscillatory energy of the electrons exceeds their energy. The strong electron mass variation destabilizes electron modes polarized along the electric field of the pump (E sub 0). The electron and ion modes decouple in the presence of such an intense pump and hence the ions do not strongly influence the instability.
- Publication:
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Unknown
- Pub Date:
- September 1975
- Bibcode:
- 1975pisr.rept.....D
- Keywords:
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- Plasma Oscillations;
- Plasma-Electromagnetic Interaction;
- Polarized Electromagnetic Radiation;
- Electron Energy;
- Electron Oscillations;
- Wave Propagation;
- Plasma Physics