Microwave Reflection from Shock-Produced Plasmas
- 1 September 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 7 (9) , 1446-1455
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1711398
Abstract
Reflection measurements have been made of very low power X‐band microwaves, axially incident on shock‐produced xenon and krypton plasmas. The electron density profile at the advancing shock front was measured with a special high‐resolution transverse 60‐kMcps interferometric probe. On comparison with free space exponential plasma‐microwave interaction theory, the measured reflection coefficients were always found to be very significantly lower than the theoretical values, the greatest disagreement being at the lowest plasma densities.Keywords
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