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Almost perpendicular electromagnetic wave transformation in a weakly relativistic inhomogeneous plasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

S. S. Sazhin
S. S. Sazhin
Affiliation:
Prospect Kosmonavtov 18-2-44, Leningrad 196244, USSR†
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Abstract

It is shown that for certain values of the parameters of weakly relativistic plasma, the perpendicular ordinary and extraordinary refractive indices are equal. This permits a transformation between these waves when the wave normal angle θ is close but not equal to ½π Explicit formulae for the corresponding transformation coefficients are derived.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , April 1987 , pp. 231 - 239
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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