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Reflexion of a plane wave at a plasma half-space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

P. C. Clemmow  and
V. B. Karunarathne
P. C. Clemmow
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge
V. B. Karunarathne
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge
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Abstract

The problem of a monochromatic plane electromagnetic wave incident from vacuum on the plane boundary of a plasma half-space is considered. The method of solution is based on the representation of the disturbance in the plasma half- space as that generated by some current source in the complementary half-space into which, for the purpose of the representation, the plasma is conceived to extend. The specular reflexion boundary conditions and the diffuse scattering boundary conditions are treated in turn, first for normal incidence and then for oblique incidence.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , February 1970 , pp. 67 - 81
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1970

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