Parametric decays of a circularly polarized electromagnetic wave in an electron-positron magnetized plasma

1998 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 994-1004 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Muñoz ◽  
L. Gomberoff
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetic Wave ◽  
Magnetized Plasma ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Electron Positron

Theory of Raman sidescatter from a magnetized plasma

1984 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. C. Barr ◽  
T. J. M. Boyd ◽  
R. Rankin
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Electromagnetic Wave ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Scattered Light ◽  
Critical Density ◽  
Magnetized Plasma ◽  
Frequency Shifts ◽  
Wave Growth ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
The Magnetic Field

The effects of a d.c. magnetic field on stimulated Raman sidescatter from laser-produced plasmas is studied. For exact sidescatter along the magnetic field, the Raman instability separates into two distinct decays in which the scattered light is either a right (RHCP) or left (LHCP) circularly polarized electromagnetic wave. Growth rates of the instabilities can be enhanced in the former case but are diminished in the latter. The magnetic field induced effects are greatest near the quarter critical density where frequency shifts can be especially significant, being equal to ± ¼Ωc for decay into RHCP and LHCP waves, respectively.

Double passage of electromagnetic waves through magnetized plasma: approximation of independent normal waves

Open Physics ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yury Kravtsov ◽  
Bohdan Bieg
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetic Wave ◽  
Characteristic Feature ◽  
Electromagnetic Waves ◽  
Polarization State ◽  
Normal Modes ◽  
Practical Interest ◽  
Magnetized Plasma ◽  
Fast Wave ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Normal Waves

AbstractPolarization properties of electromagnetic waves, double-passed through magnetized plasma, are studied. Analyses are performed in the case of non-interacting normal modes, propagating in homogeneous and weakly inhomogeneous plasmas, and for three kinds of reflectors: metallic plane, 2D corner retro-reflector (2D-CR), and cubic corner retro-reflector (CCR). It is shown that an electromagnetic wave, reflected from a metallic plane and from a CCR, contains only “velocity-preserving” channels, whose phases are doubled in comparison with those of a single-passage propagation. At the same time, an electromagnetic wave reflected from a 2D-CR is shown to contain both “velocity-preserving” and “velocity-converting” channels, the latter converting the fast wave into the slow one and vice-versa. One characteristic feature of “velocity-converting” channels is that they reproduce the initial polarization state near the source, which might be of practical interest for plasma interferometry. In the case of circularly polarized modes, “velocity-preserving” channels completely disappear, and only “velocity-converting” channels are to be found.

scholarly journals The ponderomotive force of an electromagnetic wave in a collisional plasma

1984 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 487-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. L. Sawley
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetic Wave ◽  
Spatial Variation ◽  
Wave Field ◽  
Cyclotron Frequency ◽  
Ponderomotive Force ◽  
Particle Density ◽  
Magnetized Plasma ◽  
Nonlinear Propagation ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Ponderomotive Potential

The nonlinear propagation of a circularly polarized, electromagnetic wave in a collisional, infinite, magnetized plasma is considered. The presence of collisions leads to spatial variation in the amplitude of the wave field which gives rise to a time-independent ponderomotive force. The ponderomotive potential for a left (right) circularly polarized wave attains a maximum at the ion (electron) cyclotron frequency. In the vicinity of the cyclotron frequency it is shown to be always positive. A decrease in both the particle density and the real and imaginary parts of the complex wavenumber is shown to result from the effect of the ponderomotive force.

Nonlinear interaction of an intense electromagnetic wave with an unmagnetized electron—positron plasma

1992 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. I. Berezhiani ◽  
L. N. Tsintsadze ◽  
P. K. Shukla
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetic Wave ◽  
Wave Packet ◽  
Nonlinear Interaction ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Relativistic Particle ◽  
Mass Variation ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Electron Positron ◽  
Density Perturbations ◽  
Longitudinal Plasma

The nonlinear interaction of an arbitrarily large-amplitude circularly polarized electromagnetic wave with an unmagnetized electron-positron plasma is considered, taking into account relativistic particle-mass variation as well as large-scale density perturbations created by radiation pressure. It is found that the interaction is governed by an equation for the electromagnetic wave envelope, which is coupled with a pair of equations describing fully nonlinear longitudinal plasma motions. The dynamics of the nonlinear electromagnetic wave packet is studied.

scholarly journals Dark and grey electromagnetic electron-cyclotron envelope solitons in an electron-positron magnetoplasma

2009 ◽  
Vol 75 (5) ◽  
pp. 575-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. K. SHUKLA ◽  
R. BINGHAM ◽  
A. D. R. PHELPS ◽  
L. STENFLO
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Electromagnetic Wave ◽  
External Magnetic Field ◽  
Wave Packet ◽  
Electron Cyclotron ◽  
Envelope Soliton ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Envelope Solitons ◽  
Electron Positron ◽  
Cubic Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation

AbstractWe present an investigation of the amplitude modulation of an external magnetic field-aligned right-hand circularly polarized electromagnetic electron-cyclotron (EMEC) wave in a strongly magnetized electron-positron plasma. It is shown that the dynamics of the modulated EMEC wave packet is governed by a cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation. The latter reveals that a modulated wave packet can propagate in the form of either a dark or a grey envelope soliton. This result could have relevance to the transport of electromagnetic wave energy over long distances via envelope solitons in the magnetospheres of pulsars and magnetars.

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