INVESTIGATION OF FAST WAVE BEAM-PLASMA INTERACTIONS

Abstract

This report describes a program of work on beam/plasma interaction. Both electrostatic and electromagnetic wave amplifying mechanisms are under investigation. For the former, studies in the absence of a static magnetic field are directed towards verifying the theory for the cases of finite beam/infinite plasma and beam/surface wave amplification, when transverse modulation is applied. A dipole resonant coupling system for such interactions is under study. Two distinctly different lines are being followed for interactions in the presence of a static magnetic field: Electrostatic cyclotron harmonic wave interaction is being examined, both theoretically and experimentally, and the potentialities of electromagnetic wave growth in the 'whistler' mode are being investigated.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0820879

Entities

People

  • F. W. Crawford
  • P. Diament
  • R. S. Harp
  • T. Fessenden

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Contracts
  • Couplings
  • Cyclotrons
  • Differential Equations
  • Dispersion Relations
  • Electric Fields
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Electron Beams
  • Electron Tubes
  • Electronics
  • Electrons
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Microwave Tubes
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Radiation
  • Surface Waves
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics