ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION THROUGH A PARABOLIC PLASMA SLAB AT ARBITRARY ANGLES OF INCIDENCE

Abstract

The power transmission and reflection coefficients are derived for electromagnetic waves propagating through a plasma slab having a parabolic electron distribution. The analysis considers transverse electromagnetic waves (TE Mode) impinging on a plasma slab at arbitrary angles of incidence. The solutions are in terms of complex hypergeometric functions and their derivatives. Numerical results for the transmission and reflection coefficients are plotted as functions of peak plasma frequency, peak collision frequency, signal frequency, slab thickness, and angle of incidence. The results of this study can be applied to transmission of electromagnetic energy through laboratory plasmas that are bounded by walls. Numerical results are in agreement with experimental results for a rectangular glow discharge plasma.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0489919

Entities

People

  • Clifford A. Danielson
  • Whitlow W. L. Au

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Angle Of Incidence
  • Boundaries
  • Contractors
  • Corporations
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electric Fields
  • Electrical Properties
  • Electron Density
  • Electrons
  • Equations
  • Glow Discharges
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  • Military Research
  • Wave Equations

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering
  • Plasma Physics.

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  • Microelectronics