Propagation regimes for an electromagnetic beam in magnetized plasma

Sharma, Ashutosh; Kourakis, Ioannis; Sodha, M S

doi:10.1063/1.2988770

Title: Propagation regimes for an electromagnetic beam in magnetized plasma

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The propagation of a Gaussian electromagnetic beam along the direction of magnetic field in a plasma is investigated. The extraordinary (E{sub x}+iE{sub y}) mode is explicitly considered in the analysis, although the results for the ordinary mode can be obtained upon replacing the electron cyclotron frequency {omega}{sub c} by -{omega}{sub c}. The propagating beam electric field is coupled to the surrounding plasma via the dielectric tensor, taking into account the existence of a stationary magnetic field. Both collisionless and collisional cases are considered, separately. Adopting an established methodological framework for beam propagation in unmagnetized plasmas, we extend to magnetized plasmas by considering the beam profile for points below the critical curve in the beam-power versus beam-width plane, and by employing a relationship among electron concentration and electron temperature, provided by kinetic theory (rather than phenomenology). It is shown that, for points lying above the critical curve in the beam-power versus beam-width plane, the beam experiences oscillatory convergence (self-focusing), while for points between the critical curve and divider curve, the beam undergoes oscillatory divergence and for points on and below the divider curve the beam suffers a steady divergence. For typical values of parameters, numerical results are presented and discussed.

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Sharma, Ashutosh; Kourakis, Ioannis ^[1]; Sodha, M S ^[2]

Centre for Plasma Physics, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom)
Ramanna Fellowship Programme, Institute of Advanced Studies in Education, Lucknow University, Lucknow-226 007 (India)

Publication Date:: Wed Oct 15 00:00:00 EDT 2008

OSTI Identifier:: 21254556

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Journal Name:: Physics of Plasmas

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 15; Journal Issue: 10; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2988770; (c) 2008 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; BEAM PROFILES; BEAM-PLASMA SYSTEMS; CYCLOTRON FREQUENCY; DIELECTRIC TENSOR; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELECTRON TEMPERATURE; ELECTRONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PLASMA; WAVE PROPAGATION

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                    Sharma, Ashutosh, Kourakis, Ioannis, and Sodha, M S. Propagation regimes for an electromagnetic beam in magnetized plasma.  United States: N. p., 2008. 
        Web.  doi:10.1063/1.2988770.

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                    Sharma, Ashutosh, Kourakis, Ioannis, and Sodha, M S. 2008.  
        "Propagation regimes for an electromagnetic beam in magnetized plasma".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2988770.

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  title        = {Propagation regimes for an electromagnetic beam in magnetized plasma},

  author       = {Sharma, Ashutosh and Kourakis, Ioannis and Sodha, M S},

  abstractNote = {The propagation of a Gaussian electromagnetic beam along the direction of magnetic field in a plasma is investigated. The extraordinary (E{sub x}+iE{sub y}) mode is explicitly considered in the analysis, although the results for the ordinary mode can be obtained upon replacing the electron cyclotron frequency {omega}{sub c} by -{omega}{sub c}. The propagating beam electric field is coupled to the surrounding plasma via the dielectric tensor, taking into account the existence of a stationary magnetic field. Both collisionless and collisional cases are considered, separately. Adopting an established methodological framework for beam propagation in unmagnetized plasmas, we extend to magnetized plasmas by considering the beam profile for points below the critical curve in the beam-power versus beam-width plane, and by employing a relationship among electron concentration and electron temperature, provided by kinetic theory (rather than phenomenology). It is shown that, for points lying above the critical curve in the beam-power versus beam-width plane, the beam experiences oscillatory convergence (self-focusing), while for points between the critical curve and divider curve, the beam undergoes oscillatory divergence and for points on and below the divider curve the beam suffers a steady divergence. For typical values of parameters, numerical results are presented and discussed.},

  doi          = {10.1063/1.2988770},

  url          = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/21254556},
  journal      = {Physics of Plasmas},

  issn         = {1070-664X},

  number       = 10,

  volume       = 15,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Wed Oct 15 00:00:00 EDT 2008},

  month        = {Wed Oct 15 00:00:00 EDT 2008}

}

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