Analytic expressions for polarimetry in plasma with large Cotton{endash}Mouton or Faraday effects

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Title: Analytic expressions for polarimetry in plasma with large Cotton{endash}Mouton or Faraday effects

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Analytic expressions for plasma polarimetry are derived for the case when either the Cotton{endash}Mouton effect or the Faraday effect is large while the other effect is small. {copyright} {ital 1996 American Institute of Physics.}

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Segre, S E ^[1]

Associazione Euratom--ENEA sulla Fusione, Centro Ricerche Energia Frascati, C.P. 65---00044 Frascati, Rome (Italy)

Publication Date:: 1996-03-01

OSTI Identifier:: 278969

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Journal Name:: Physics of Plasmas

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 3; Journal Issue: 3; Other Information: PBD: Mar 1996

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION; PLASMA; WAVE PROPAGATION; ANALYTICAL SOLUTION; BIREFRINGENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FARADAY EFFECT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETO-OPTICAL EFFECTS; POLARIMETRY; POLARIZATION; MAGNETOPLASMA

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                    Segre, S E. Analytic expressions for polarimetry in plasma with large Cotton{endash}Mouton or Faraday effects.  United States: N. p., 1996. 
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                    Segre, S E. Analytic expressions for polarimetry in plasma with large Cotton{endash}Mouton or Faraday effects.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1063/1.871774

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@article{osti_278969,

  title        = {Analytic expressions for polarimetry in plasma with large Cotton{endash}Mouton or Faraday effects},

  author       = {Segre, S E},

  abstractNote = {Analytic expressions for plasma polarimetry are derived for the case when either the Cotton{endash}Mouton effect or the Faraday effect is large while the other effect is small. {copyright} {ital 1996 American Institute of Physics.}},

  doi          = {10.1063/1.871774},

  url          = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/278969},
  journal      = {Physics of Plasmas},
number       = 3,

  volume       = 3,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {1996},

  month        = {3}

}

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