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Stimulated Raman backscattering in a magnetized plasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

Joseph E. Willett  and
Behrooz Maraghechi
Joseph E. Willett
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri 65201, U.S.A.
Behrooz Maraghechi
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri 65201, U.S.A.
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Abstract

The parametric decay of an intense electromagnetic (pump) wave into a back-scattered electromagnetic wave and an electron plasma wave is considered. The dispersion relation for a homogeneous magnetized plasma in the presence of the pump wave is developed in the cold-plasma approximation with the pump frequency large compared to the cyclotron and plasma frequencies. Formulae are derived for the growth rate γ and threshold power PT associated with the instability. The effects of the magnitude and direction of the static magnetic field on γ and PT are studied numerically.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , April 1978 , pp. 313 - 324
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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