Strong Langmuir turbulence of plasma and electromagnetic wave absorption caused by two plasmon decay at the resonance {omega}{sub 0} = 2{omega}{sub P}
- General Physics Institute, Moscow (Russian Federation)
It is shown that the significant absorption in the vicinity of the resonance {omega}{sub 0}=2{omega}{sub p} can be caused only by the secondary nonlinear processes, namely modulational instability of the Langmuir waves excited by the decay instability, Langmuir field collapsing and the transition to the strong Langmuir turbulence state. The macroscopic consequences of that state, such as accelerated electrons tails production or short wave ion sound oscillation generation can be easily identified experimentally. Experiments were carried out in the device consisting of a circular waveguide TE{sub 11} mode 7 cm diameter and 100 cm length, terminated with the metal mesh screen. Plasma is created by the pulse beam-plasma discharge in Argon at pressure 10{sup -4}-10{sup -3} Torr. Microwave radiation pulses (wavelength 5 cm, duration 10{sup -5} sec, the electric field strength E{sub 0} {<=} 1 kV/cm) are turned on 100 {mu}s later trailing edge of the electron beam pulse on the plasma decay stage. The measured absorption factor and corresponding average effective collision frequency vs microwave field strength are shown in Fig.1. Simultaneously with the microwave absorption in the plasma an overthermal electron fluxes and ion acoustic fluctuations occur. The overthermal electron current and energy increase as the microwave power increases. The characteristic ion acoustic wavenumbers calculated from the measured frequency spectra in accord with ion acoustic dispersion relation are (0,4-1) kr{sub D} where r{sub D} is the Debye length.
- OSTI ID:
- 232843
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950749-; TRN: 97:015776
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 22. international conference on phenomena in ionized gases, Hoboken, NJ (United States), 31 Jul - 4 Aug 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of XXII International conference on phenomena in ionized gases. Contributed papers 3; Becker, K.H.; Carr, W.E.; Kunhardt, E.E. [eds.]; PB: 120 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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