Nonlinear Interaction Between Extraordinary Waves in a Cold Plasma
- 1 July 1969
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 40 (8) , 3247-3256
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1658171
Abstract
This paper presents an analysis of nonlinear interaction between extraordinary waves propagating perpendicular to the static magnetic field in a cold homogeneous magnetoplasma. It is first shown that the synchronism conditions for wave/wave interaction can be met over wide ranges of parameters. A theory of the interaction based on cold plasma theory is then described which yields a closed-form solution for signal growth by the mechanism of parametric amplification. Numerical solutions are presented for the growth rate, and associated frequencies and wavenumbers, over a range of magnetoplasma parameters. The relevance of these results to laboratory and space plasma experimentation, and to verification of the theory, is discussed.This publication has 33 references indexed in Scilit:
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