Relativistic effects on microwave reflectometry
- 1 October 1992
- journal article
- letter
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids B: Plasma Physics
- Vol. 4 (10) , 3460-3461
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.860354
Abstract
A simple formula for tracking the cutoffs of waves in the electron cyclotron range of frequencies is presented for plasmas with electron temperatures similar to those of existing large tokamaks (∼10 keV) and conditions of negligible wave absorption.Keywords
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