Nonlinear development of the negative-mass instability and its effect on intense microwave generation
Abstract
The nonlinear development of the negative-mass instability is investigated for a thin E layer (∆≪R0) located inside a cylindrical waveguide. A quasilinear analysis shows that the instability saturates by the development of an energy spread and a corresponding increase in thickness ∆ of the E layer. The efficiency of microwave generation by this instability is also calculated.
- Publication:
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Journal of Applied Physics
- Pub Date:
- July 1978
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.325434
- Bibcode:
- 1978JAP....49.3789G
- Keywords:
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- Microwave Emission;
- Nonlinear Systems;
- Plasma Layers;
- Electron Density Profiles;
- Waveguides;
- Plasma Physics;
- 52.35.Py;
- 52.25.Ps;
- 41.70.+t;
- 52.55.Ke;
- Macroinstabilities