Nature of the Instability Caused by Electrons Trapped by an Electron Plasma Wave
- 24 April 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 28 (17) , 1114-1117
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.28.1114
Abstract
The sidebands which accompany a large-amplitude electron wave on a plasma column are shown to arise from selectively amplified noise; the amplification mechanism is a parametric coupling between the sideband frequencies and the oscillations of the electrons trapped in the large wave.Keywords
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