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The stimulated emission of Bremsstrahlung in a fully ionized plasma‡

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

W. B. Thompson
W. B. Thompson
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
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Abstract

The process of induced bremsstrahlung is studied and it is found that anisotropy in the electron distribution can lead to the amplification of radiation. The gain rate is ,Λ where ν is the electron-ion collision frequency, ωp and ω the plasma and radiation frequency, and Λ a numerical factor which is positive only for anisotropic distributions.

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Research Article
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , August 1988 , pp. 513 - 523
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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