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Self-modulation of a nonlinear ion wave packet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

S. Watanabe
S. Watanabe
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (Laboratoire associé au CNRS), Université de Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France
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The modulational instability of the ion wave is observed experimentally. Two kinds of wave packets are launched in the plasma by means of a grid. One is a broad-band wave packet excited by a positive step voltage. The other is a quasi-monochromatic wave packet modulated by a pulse. For the step voltage response, we observe a large oscillation in the wave front which evolves to Korteveg–de Vries solitons and a small amplitude wave packet in the tail. The wave packet becomes modulationally unstable and divides into smaller wave packets. Whenever the wave packet is modulated, the spread of the packet is suppressed and is much smaller than is expected from linear dispersion. For the quasi-monochromatic wave packet, we also observe the modulational instability if the carrier frequency is high. The frequency of the carrier is shifted by the instability. The result of the quasi-monochromatic wave packet is qualitatively explained by the modified nonlinear Schrödinger equation taking account of the wave-particle interaction at the group velocity.

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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , June 1977 , pp. 487 - 501
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1977

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