PULSE STIMULATED RADIATION FROM A PLASMA AT HARMONICS OF THE GYROFREQUENCY.
Abstract
A magneto-plasma excited by two short pulses at the gyrofrequency or a multiple thereof, is considered in the single particle approach. After the second pulse radiation maxima arise at the gyrofrequency and its harmonics. In a situation where the time separation of these maxima is tau* (in the simplest case tau* = tau) at the fundamental, it is tau/n at the n-th harmonic. As the resonances at the harmonics are a finite Larmor radius effect, excitation at these frequencies requires an initial energy. As an example, the case is studied where the first pulse has the gyrofrequency while the second has the frequency 2(OMEGA-c). In this case radiation maxima arise with 2(OMEGA-c) at times t sub L = L(TAU) (l = 1,2,3,...) after the second pulse. At the fundamental the maxima arise at times t sub L = (2l - 1) TAU, where the maximum at the time TAU is initially due to the nonlinearity during the second pulse. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1966
- Accession Number
- AD0635155
Entities
People
- Welhelm H. Kegel
Organizations
- California Institute of Technology