Spectral analysis of ion-acoustic soliton excitation
Abstract
The evolution of the frequency spectrum of a velocity modulated burst of ions from a fine mesh grid in a plasma is measured and interpreted. Initial frequency modulation close to the grid indicates a ``klystron bunching'' of the ions. The measured spectrum far from the grid indicates the excitation of an ion-acoustic soliton.
- Publication:
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Applied Physics Letters
- Pub Date:
- December 1985
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.96301
- Bibcode:
- 1985ApPhL..47.1274C
- Keywords:
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- Ion Acoustic Waves;
- Plasma Waves;
- Solitary Waves;
- Spectrum Analysis;
- Grids;
- Klystrons;
- Plasmas (Physics);
- Plasma Physics