Plasma Devices and Operations, volume 17, issue 3, pages 215-220
Conversion of a left-hand circularly polarized whistler wave into the magnetic energy of a controllable helical wiggler wave
Z M Trifković
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P Osmokrović
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Publication type: Journal Article
Publication date: 2009-09-01
Journal:
Plasma Devices and Operations
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ISSN: 10519998, 10294929
Condensed Matter Physics
Nuclear Energy and Engineering
Abstract
A linearly polarized electromagnetic source wave splits into six traveling wave modes (three of them are right-hand circularly-polarized (RCP) modes and three are left-hand circularly-polarized (LCP) modes) due to the interaction with a suddenly created magnetoplasma medium. When the angular frequency of the source wave is in the low-frequency region, the magnetoplasma supports two whistler wave modes (one is the transmitted RCP and the other is the reflected LCP). It is shown that the efficiency of energy conversion of the LCP whistler wave mode into the magnetic field of the wiggler is nearly of the same order of magnitude as the efficiency of the previously considered energy conversion of the RCP whistler wave mode.
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