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Title: Efficient regime of electromagnetic emission in a plasma with counterstreaming electron beams

Abstract

Efficiency of electromagnetic emission produced in a magnetized plasma with counterstreaming electron beams was investigated using both the linear kinetic theory and particle-in-cell simulations. We calculated the growth rate of the beam-plasma instability taking into account both kinetic and relativistic effects and showed that there exists a regime in which transversely propagating electromagnetic waves can be generated by the coupling of the most unstable oblique beam-driven modes. It was confirmed by numerical simulations that such a tune-up of system parameters for a specific nonlinear process can lead to a substantial increase in electromagnetic emission efficiency. It was found that electromagnetic radiation emerging from the plasma in such a regime is generated near the harmonics of the pump frequency that is determined by the typical eigenfrequency of the beam-driven modes. It was also shown that the peak emission power can reach 5% of the maximal power lost by beam electrons.

Authors:
;  [1]
  1. Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS and Novosibirsk State University, 630090 Novosibirsk (Russian Federation)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22303797
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Physics of Plasmas
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 21; Journal Issue: 8; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; 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; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; EFFICIENCY; EIGENFREQUENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELECTRON BEAMS; EMISSION; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; PLASMA; PLASMA INSTABILITY; RELATIVISTIC RANGE

Citation Formats

Timofeev, I. V., and Annenkov, V. V. Efficient regime of electromagnetic emission in a plasma with counterstreaming electron beams. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4892965.
Timofeev, I. V., & Annenkov, V. V. Efficient regime of electromagnetic emission in a plasma with counterstreaming electron beams. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4892965
Timofeev, I. V., and Annenkov, V. V. 2014. "Efficient regime of electromagnetic emission in a plasma with counterstreaming electron beams". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4892965.
@article{osti_22303797,
title = {Efficient regime of electromagnetic emission in a plasma with counterstreaming electron beams},
author = {Timofeev, I. V. and Annenkov, V. V.},
abstractNote = {Efficiency of electromagnetic emission produced in a magnetized plasma with counterstreaming electron beams was investigated using both the linear kinetic theory and particle-in-cell simulations. We calculated the growth rate of the beam-plasma instability taking into account both kinetic and relativistic effects and showed that there exists a regime in which transversely propagating electromagnetic waves can be generated by the coupling of the most unstable oblique beam-driven modes. It was confirmed by numerical simulations that such a tune-up of system parameters for a specific nonlinear process can lead to a substantial increase in electromagnetic emission efficiency. It was found that electromagnetic radiation emerging from the plasma in such a regime is generated near the harmonics of the pump frequency that is determined by the typical eigenfrequency of the beam-driven modes. It was also shown that the peak emission power can reach 5% of the maximal power lost by beam electrons.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4892965},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22303797}, journal = {Physics of Plasmas},
issn = {1070-664X},
number = 8,
volume = 21,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Aug 15 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Fri Aug 15 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}