The admittance of an infinite cylindrical antenna in a lossy, compressible, anisotropic plasma

1968 ◽  
Vol 46 (9) ◽  
pp. 1109-1118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmund K. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Parameter ◽  
Cyclotron Frequency ◽  
Plasma Frequency ◽  
Fourier Integral ◽  
Dipole Antenna ◽  
Cylindrical Antenna ◽  
Axis Parallel ◽  
E Region ◽  
Antenna Surface ◽  
Parameter Values

An analysis of the current on an infinite cylindrical dipole antenna which is excited across a circumferential gap of nonzero thickness and immersed in a lossy, compressible magnetoplasma with its axis parallel to the static magnetic field is described. Some numerical results are presented for the antenna admittance for the sheathless case, where the uniform magnetoplasma is in contact with the antenna surface. The admittance values are obtained from a numerical integration of the Fourier integral for the antenna current, and are given for plasma parameter values typical of the E region of the ionosphere.The admittance values obtained exhibit a maximum slightly above the electron cyclotron frequency, and in this regard are similar to the admittance when the magnetoplasma is incompressible but separated from the antenna by a free-space layer (the vacuum sheath). In addition, the admittance is found to have a slight minimum at the plasma frequency and to have a more pronounced minimum at the upper hybrid frequency where also the susceptance changes sign, these minima not being significantly affected by the plasma compressibility or vacuum sheath. These features of the calculated admittances are found to have a qualitative resemblance to experimental results obtained from antenna measurements in the ionosphere.

THE ADMITTANCE OF AN INFINITE CYLINDRICAL ANTENNA IN A LOSSY INCOMPRESSIBLE, ANISOTROPIC PLASMA

1967 ◽  
Vol 45 (12) ◽  
pp. 4019-4038 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmund K. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Free Space ◽  
Cyclotron Frequency ◽  
Plasma Frequency ◽  
Floating Potential ◽  
Space Layer ◽  
Cylindrical Antenna ◽  
Warm Plasma ◽  
Positive Ion ◽  
Uniform Plasma

A numerical investigation of the admittance of an infinite, circular cylindrical antenna excited at a circumferential gap of nonzero thickness, and immersed in a lossy incompressible magnetoplasma with the antenna parallel to the static magnetic field is described. A concentric free-space layer (the vacuum sheath) which separates the antenna from the external uniform plasma is included in the analysis to approximate the positive ion sheath which may form about a body at floating potential in a warm plasma. The numerical results for the antenna admittance show that: (1) in the absence of a sheath, a sharp admittance maximum is found at the electron cyclotron frequency, with the maximum more pronounced when the plasma frequency exceeds the cyclotron frequency than for the converse case; (2) the vacuum sheath shifts upward in frequency and reduces in amplitude the admittance maximum which occurs for the sheathless case at the cyclotron frequency; (3) a kink or minimum in the admittance is found at the plasma frequency.

Coupling of Upper Hybrid Surface Plasmon Modes in Magnetoplasma Waveguide Structure

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-160
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
Cyclotron Frequency ◽  
Plasma Frequency ◽  
Single Mode ◽  
Homogeneous System ◽  
Slab Waveguide ◽  
Surface Modes ◽  
Plasma Slab ◽  
Warm Plasma ◽  
Hybrid Waves

Abstract: We investigate the spectra of high-frequency electrostatic surface electron plasmon oscillations propagating normal to a dc-magnetic field. These oscillations are supported by two identical magnetoplasma slabs separated by a vacuum slab. Propagation characteristics of surface magnetoplasma oscillations and their coupling are studied by simultaneously solving the homogeneous system of equations obtained by matching the electrostatic fields at the interfaces together with the warm plasma dielectric function of upper hybrid waves. We demonstrate the existence of two propagating magnetoplasma electrostatic surface modes (backward and forward modes). The backward mode emerges at frequency ω=ω_uh=√(ω_pe^2+ω_ce^2 ), where ω_pe and ω_ce are the electron plasma frequency and the electron cyclotron frequency, respectivily, and the forward propagating mode emerges at a lower frequency ω=ω_uh-ω_pe. The forward and backward surface modes become coupled and form a single mode at upper hybrid resonance quasi-static value ω=ω_uh/√2. Keywords: Upper hybrid modes, Plasma slab waveguide, Coupled plasmon surface modes.

Rayleigh surface waves along the boundary between a plasma and a metallic screen

1993 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. T. Ivanov ◽  
K. M. Ivanova ◽  
E. G. Alexov
Keyword(s):  
Wave Propagation ◽  
Electromagnetic Wave ◽  
Surface Waves ◽  
Electromagnetic Waves ◽  
Electromagnetic Wave Propagation ◽  
Cyclotron Frequency ◽  
Plasma Frequency ◽  
Magnetoactive Plasma ◽  
Rayleigh Surface Waves ◽  
The Waves

Electromagnetic wave propagation along the interface between a magnetoactive plasma and a metallic screen is investigated analytically and numerically. It is shown that the waves have a Rayleigh character: they are superpositions of two partial waves. It is concluded that electromagnetic waves propagate only at frequencies lower than min (ωp, ωc), where ωpis the plasma frequency and ωcis the cyclotron frequency. The field topology is found, and the physical character of the waves is discussed.

Magnetic stabilization of transverse plasma instabilitiest

1971 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 467-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Buti ◽  
G. S. Lakhina
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Growth Rate ◽  
Cyclotron Frequency ◽  
Plasma Frequency ◽  
Electron Plasma ◽  
Wave Number ◽  
Uniform External Magnetic Field ◽  
Magnetic Stabilization ◽  
Streaming Velocity ◽  
The Magnetic Field

Waves, propagating transverse to the direction of the streaming of a plasma in the presence of a uniform external magnetic field, are unstable if the streaming exceeds a certain minimum value. The magnetic field reduces the growth rate of this instability, and also increases the value of the minimum streaming velocity, above which the system is unstable. The thermal motions in the plasma, however, tend to stabilize the system if the magnetic field is weak (i.e. , Ω being the electron cyclotron frequency, k the characteristic wave-number, and Vt the thermal velocity); but, in case of strong magnetic field (i.e. ), they increase the growth rate, provided (ωp being the electron plasma frequency).

scholarly journals Analyses of a Dipole Antenna Loaded by a Cylindrical Shell of Double Negative (DNG) Metamaterial

2007 ◽  
Vol 2007 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khan M. Z. Shams ◽  
Mohammod Ali
Keyword(s):  
Cylindrical Shell ◽  
Input Impedance ◽  
Dipole Antenna ◽  
Double Negative ◽  
Beam Splitting ◽  
Thin Cylindrical Shell ◽  
Half Wavelength ◽  
Antenna Length ◽  
Galerkin Formulation ◽  
Parameter Values

The current distribution, input impedance, and radiation pattern of a cylindrical dipole antenna enclosed by a thin cylindrical shell of double negative (DNG) metamaterial are computed using the piecewise sinusoidal Galerkin formulation. In the presence of the DNG shell, the dipole antenna exhibits three interesting characteristics. The input impedance shows potentials for wide bandwidth due to the relative insensitivity of the impedance with frequency. Within specific ranges of DNG material parameter values, the dipole shows resonance at much lower frequencies than its resonant frequency in free space. The dipole does not show change in the direction of the principal beam nor does it show signs of beam splitting and side lobes even when the antenna length approaches one and a half wavelength.

The growth and decay of resonant plasma oscillations excited by a small pulsed dipole

1969 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Fejer ◽  
Wai-Mao Yu
Keyword(s):  
Time Delays ◽  
Cyclotron Frequency ◽  
Plasma Frequency ◽  
Practical Interest ◽  
Observation Point ◽  
Landau Damping ◽  
Plasma Oscillations ◽  
Fixed Distance ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Thermal Speed

The application of integration by the method of stationary phase to resonant oscillations excited by a small pulsed dipole is outlined. Both the growth and the decay of the oscillations near the plasma frequency are determined by this method at a fixed distance from the dipole, first in the absence and then in the presence of an external magnetic field. It is shown that Landau damping must be taken into account in the calculation of the growth but not of the decay. The oscillations are shown to spread out with a speed that is about half the mean thermal speed of electrons.Only the decay, not the growth, of the oscifiations near harmonics of the cyclotron frequency can be calculated by the same method. It is shown, moreover, that the amplitude, calculated for an observation point that moves away with sateffite velocity in an ionospheric environment, is only valid for time delays longer than about a minute. Such a result is therefore of no practical interest because the resonances observed from sateffites only last a few milliseconds. The erroneous nature of using such a result and the need for a different approach, such as that used in earlier work by the first author, are thus demonstrated.

The influence of azimuthal motion on ion resonance instability for a non-neutral plasma column

1995 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. C. Chen
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Column ◽  
Cyclotron Frequency ◽  
Plasma Frequency ◽  
Maxwell Model ◽  
Threshold Value ◽  
General Treatment ◽  
Plasma Rotation ◽  
Rotational Equilibrium ◽  
Neutral Plasma ◽  
Fast Ion

A general treatment of ion resonance instability for a non-neutral plasma column is performed using a macroscopic cold-fluid-Maxwell model. The azimuthal motion of the plasma components has an important influence on the behaviour of the instability. When the electrons are in slow rotational equilibrium, the instability occurs in both slow and fast ion rotational equilibrium. However, there is stability when the electrons are in fast rotational equilibrium except that the l = 1 mode becomes unstable and independent of plasma rotation. The kink (l = 1) mode only occurs when the plasma column boundary exceeds a certain threshold value that depends on the ratio of the plasma frequency to the cyclotron frequency.

Stability of anisotropic plasmas to almost-perpendicular magnetosonic waves

1971 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 495-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. W. Landau† ◽  
S. Cuperman
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Dispersion Relation ◽  
Simple Form ◽  
Cyclotron Frequency ◽  
Plasma Frequency ◽  
Alfven Wave ◽  
Larmor Radius ◽  
Ion Plasma ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Magnetic Field

The stability of anisotropic plasmas to the magnetosonic (or right-hand compressional Alfvén) wave, near the ion cyclotron frequency, propagating almost perpendicular to the magnetic field, is investigated. For this case, and for wavelengths larger than the ion Larmor radius and for large ion plasma frequency (w2p+ ≫ Ωp+) the dispersion relation is obtained in a simple form. It is shown that for T # T' (even T ≫ T) no instabifity occurs. The resonant ters are also included, and it is shown that there is no resonant instabifity, only damping.

Particle acceleration by lower-hybrid turbulence

2002 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. BINGHAM ◽  
J. M. DAWSON ◽  
V. D. SHAPIRO
Keyword(s):  
Particle Acceleration ◽  
Cyclotron Frequency ◽  
Plasma Frequency ◽  
Energetic Electron ◽  
Wave Turbulence ◽  
Lower Hybrid ◽  
Hybrid Wave ◽  
Lower Hybrid Wave ◽  
Particle In Cell ◽  
Pic Code

We investigate particle acceleration by strong lower-hybrid turbulence produced by the relaxation of an energetic perpendicular ion ring distribution. Ion ring distributions are associated with counterstreaming plasma flows in a magnetic field, and are found at perpendicular shocks as a result of ion reflection from the shock surface. Using a 2½D particle-in-cell (PIC) code that is fully electromagnetic and relativistic, we show that the ion ring is unstable to the generation of strong plasma turbulence at the lower-hybrid resonant frequency. The lower-hybrid wave turbulence collapses in configuration space, producing density cavities. The collapse of the cavities is halted by particle acceleration, producing energetic electron and ion tails. For solar flare plasmas with temperatures of 1 keV and a ratio of the plasma frequency to the electron cyclotron frequency of ½, we demonstrate electron acceleration to energies up to MeV, while the ions are accelerated to energies in the region of several MeV.

Stability of relativistic anisotropic plasmas to perpendicular magnetosonic waves

1970 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 495-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. W. Landau ◽  
S. Cuperman
Keyword(s):  
Dispersion Relation ◽  
Cyclotron Frequency ◽  
Plasma Frequency ◽  
Interplanetary Medium ◽  
Alfven Wave ◽  
Larmor Radius ◽  
First Order ◽  
Ion Plasma ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Magnetic Field

The stability of relativistic anisotropic plasmas to the magnetosonic (or righthand compressional Alfvén) wave, near the ion cyclotron frequency, propagating perpendicular to the magnetic field, is investigated. For this case, and for wavelengths larger than the ion Larmor radius and large ion plasma frequency () the dispersion relation is obtained in a simple form and solved. It is shown that for T‖ ╪ T⊥ (even T‖ ≥ T⊥) no instability occurs. This conclusion applies also to the case of the anisotropic interplanetary medium.We note a peculiarity of the dispersion relation. Zero-order and first-order terms cancel so that the relation is of second order in our expansion parameter. The non-relativistic numerical results of Fredricks and Kennel are recovered.

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