On the instability of inhomogeneous plasma in the field of a strong electromagnetic wave.
Abstract
The paper examines the parametric instability of an electron plasma in the field of a strong, nonuniform, circularly polarized electromagnetic wave. Kinetic equations are used to study the relativistic motion of electrons in the field of the pumping wave, and the possibility of the parametric excitation of high frequency longitudinal plasma oscillations is demonstrated. The instability examined here occurs particularly when intense radio waves interact with a plasma.
- Publication:
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Akademiia Nauk Gruzii Soobshcheniia
- Pub Date:
- July 1976
- Bibcode:
- 1976SoGru..83...73T
- Keywords:
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- Circular Polarization;
- Electromagnetic Fields;
- Electron Plasma;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Stability;
- Nonuniform Plasmas;
- Plasma-Electromagnetic Interaction;
- Electromagnetic Wave Transmission;
- Electron Mobility;
- Kinetic Equations;
- Particle Motion;
- Plasma Oscillations;
- Relativistic Particles;
- Plasma Physics