WAVES IN ANISOTROPIC MEDIA.

Abstract

Theoretical studies have been directed towards understanding how factors sometimes discounted in simple models, such as temperature and collision effects, affect the propagation of waves in an anisotropic medium. The theoretical and computational work on dielectric loaded structures has yielded a method of calculating field and frequency of the lowest TM mode, from which the dispersion curve is easily obtained. Theoretical work on waves on electron beams has been confirmed by an experiment on a two beam vacuum tube. Microwave emission from a solid state plasma device has been observed. The effect of a standing microwave field pattern on the electron temperature in a plasma has been investigated and found to accord with the theory. Laser induced electron and ion emission has been observed from metal points and plane surfaces. The time delay between the laser pulse and onset of emission has been measured as less than 3.10 to the minus 8th power seconds. Stimulated emission has been observed in the ruby optical pumping experiment at 3 cm and 8 mm wavelengths.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 10, 1965
Accession Number
AD0652651

Entities

People

  • Hans Motz

Organizations

  • University of Oxford

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Collisions
  • Dispersions
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Electron Beams
  • Electron Tubes
  • Electrons
  • Emission
  • Frequency
  • Laser Pulses
  • Microwaves
  • Optical Pumping
  • Plasmonic Devices
  • Pumping
  • Radiation

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Materials Science and Engineering.
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Lasers
  • Microelectronics