Infrared wave interaction with an electron in the rectangular and circular plasma waveguide

In this article, the effect of the electron collision frequency with background ions on TM mode field components, the trajectory, and the electron energy gain in interaction infrared radiation with collisional plasma is studied. The field components of the TM mode in the rectangular and circular collisional plasma waveguides are obtained. The deflection angle and acceleration gradient of an electron in the fields associated with a transverse magnetic (TM) wave propagating inside a plasma waveguide for TM mode is studied. The relativistic momentum and energy equations for an electron are solved, which was injected initially along the propagation direction of the infrared. The results for collisionless and collisional plasma are graphically represented. Finally, the results for rectangular and circular waveguides are compared.     

Permittivity of plasma and nonstationary theory of nonlocal transport

A regular procedure is proposed for finding the solution to a linearized kinetic equation for charged particles with the Landau collision integral in a plasma with large Z. The expression for longitudinal permittivity of a collisional plasma, which is obtained using this procedure for the entire range of frequencies and wavenumbers, as well as the collision parameter, is transformed to the known expressions in the corresponding asymptotic limits. The nonlocal transport equations for small perturbations are also formulated for arbitrary relations between the characteristic space and time scales of the plasma; these relations considerably extend the limits of applicability for previously developed theories.     

Ultrashort-laser-pulse absorption with spatial dispersion and nonlocal transport effects

We study ultrashort-laser-pulse absorption and plasma heating at a sharp plasma–vacuum interface using advanced models for all-range plasma permittivity and nonlocal heat transport. The electron response includes both collisional and collisionless dissipative effects in the plasma of an arbitrary ion charge. We show that nonlocal electron heat transport is important for correct determination of the value of electron temperature and spatial temperature profile. Nonlocal electron heat flux comes into play after electrons heat up to temperatures of the order of 1 keV and to temperatures several times less for low-density targets.     

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提出碰撞吸收型等离子体的等效折射指数,重新计算了折射角,并与利用常规方法得到的折射角进行了比较。分析了等离子体密度和碰撞频率对折射角的影响。考察了斜入射电磁波在吸收型等离子体中的折射特性,并以一维非均匀碰撞吸收型等离子体为例,对斜入射电磁波的反射特性进行了考察。结果表明,等效折射指数的概念涵盖了入射角度的影响,在考察斜入射时更准确、便捷。     

前鞘等离子体的LB碰撞输运模型

本文从离子动力学方程出发，利用ＬＢ碰撞模型研究了离子－离子碰撞效应对前鞘等离子体输运的影响。电子分布假定为等温麦克斯韦－玻耳兹曼分布。结果表明，在低碰撞频率和高碰撞频率下，ＬＢ碰撞模型都能较好地描述前鞘等离子体中的离子－离子碰撞行为。离子－离子碰撞对表面等离子体的输运行为有较大影响。     

Impact of nonlinear absorption on propagation of microwave in a plasma filled rectangular waveguide

In collisional and ponderomotive predominant regimes, the propagation of microwave in rectangular waveguide filled with collisional plasma is investigated numerically. The dominant mode is excited through an evacuated waveguide and then enters a similar and co-axis waveguide filled with plasma. In collisional predominant regime, the amplitude of electric field is oscillated along propagation path; outset of propagation path due to the electron-ion collision, the intensity oscillations are reduced. Afterward, under competition between the collisional nonlinearity and absorption, the intensity is increased, so the electron density peak is created in middle of waveguide. In ponderomotive predominant regime, the intensity is slowly decreased due to collision, so the electron density is ramped. Control parameters, like the frequency, input power, collision frequency, and background electron density are surveyed that can be used to control propagation characteristics of microwave. This method can be used to control heating of fusion plasma and accelerate charged particle.     

热电子对低频等离子体漂移波的稳定作用

本文用磁流体理论导出了热电子等离子体中,等离子体密度梯度驱动的低频漂移波的色散关系,分析了热电子的稳定作用。热电子成分稳定等离子体低频扰动的物理机制是charge uncovering效应,它只依赖于热电子同等离子体的密度比α,而不依赖于热电子的β值。热电子能降低等离子体交换模和漂移波的增长率,减少漂移波引起的等离子体反常输运损失。稳定等离子体交换模要求α≈2％,稳定等离子体漂移波要求α≈40％。理论上预示了在热电子等离子体中,等离子体漂移波是最重要的低频不稳定性。 关键词：     

碰撞等离子体的非相干散射谱

给出了任意非麦克斯韦速度分布条件下,碰撞等离子体非相干散射谱的求解方法的一般表达式,并给出了谱计算中,所必需的两个复奇点积分的计算方法.计算了低电离层HF加热下功率谱,讨论了碰撞频率、非麦氏指数、电子密度、电子温度和离子温度对功率谱的影响.由于碰撞和非麦克斯韦因子的作用,原有的电离层参量和谱型特征的对应关系不再成立,这会对电离层参量的反演带来很大误差,必须对原有的理论模型予以修正. 关键词： 功率谱 非相干散射雷达 非麦克斯韦分布函数 碰撞     

Interaction of terahertz waves propagation in a homogeneous,magnetized, and collisional plasma slab

ABSTRACT

The properties of terahertz waves propagation in a homogeneous, magnetized, and collisional plasma are studied in this paper. We first theoretically calculate the reflectance and absorbance coefficients for terahertz waves passing through this region. Then, numerous simulations are conducted to investigate the influence of the plasma on the terahertz waves propagation. According to the results, the plasma density, collision frequency, and magnetic field play important roles in dielectric spectra, and then result in large impacts on the propagation with the variation of the plasma thickness, incident angle, and the gas pressure. The absorbance increases with the increase of plasma density, and the collision frequency. With respect to the collisional absorption and electron cyclotron resonance, the absorbance first increases to its maximum peak and then decreases as the wave frequency increases. When the plasma density increases, the peak value shifts to a higher frequency. Meanwhile, the plasma slab acts as the absorber or reflector with the variation of the gas pressure and the plasma thickness. These results provide supplementary information on the terahertz waves propagation in plasma and can serve as a theoretical basis for its application.     

Electronic transport of Lorentz plasma with collision and magnetic field effects

The electronic transverse transport of Lorentz plasma with collision and magnetic field effects is studied by solving the Boltzmann equation for different electron density distributions. For the Maxwellian distribution, it is shown that transport coefficients decrease as ? increases, ? is the ratio of an electron's magneto-cyclotron frequency to plasma collision frequency. It means that the electrons are possible to be highly collimated by a strong magnetic field. For the quasimonoenergetic distribution with different widths, it is found that the transport coefficients decrease greatly as εˉ decreases.In particular when the width approaches to zero the transverse transport coefficients are hardly affected by the magnetic field and the minimal one is obtained. Results imply that the strong magnetic field and quasi-monoenergetic distribution are both beneficial to reduce the electronic transverse transport. This study is also helpful to understand the relevant problems of plasma transport in the background of the inertial confinement fusion.     

Effect of subsonic toroidal flows on plasma poloidal rotation and ion heat conductivity. In collisional plasmas of elongated tokamaks

The ion poloidal rotation and heat conductivity in collisional plasmas of axially-symmetric tokamaks with elongated cross-sections and with subsonic toroidal plasma flows are considered. It is shown that subsonic toroidal plasma flows, induced by neutral beam injection or radio frequency waves, can strongly affect the poloidal plasma velocity and ion heat conductivity in collisional plasmas of tokamaks. The transport coefficients also depend on the tokamak ellipticity parameter which, in combination with the Mach number, allows to operate transport processes at smaller values of the toroidal Mach number. The importance of taking into account the ion-electron heat exchange and electron temperature toroidal perturbations to find ion temperature toroidal perturbations is demonstrated. This work was partially supported by the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and the Rio de Janeiro Research Foundation (FAPERJ).     

Self distortion of a Gaussian electromagnetic pulse in a plasma

On the basis of perturbation theory, the phenomenon of nonlinear self distortion of an electromagnetic pulse (Gaussian in time) in a collisional plasma has been studied. The nonlinearity appears through the modulation of electron collision frequency by the power absorption from the wave. At moderate energies of the pulse, considerable distortion in the amplitude envelope has been predicted.     

非磁化等离子体中的电子碰撞频率

电子碰撞频率是非磁化等离子体的一个重要参数,它对等离子体与电磁波相互作用的性质具有较大影响。基于产生等离子体的气压条件不同,其电子碰撞频率具有较大变化范围。研究了它对非磁化等离子体吸波能力的影响,得出了当电子碰撞频率与等离子体频率和入射波频率相当时,等离子体对电磁波具有较大吸收的结论,给出了对应于最大吸收的最佳碰撞频率值。分析了通过选择放电气体来调整等离子体的电子碰撞频率。     

Microwave method for the measurement of the relative phase and relative amplitude of the variations of the electron density and collision frequency in a plasma

A microwave diagnostic method is developed to study the amplitude variations of electron density and collision frequency and the phase difference between these two variables in a weakly-ionized gaseous plasma. The method is utilized to study the perturbations of a nitrogen positive column through which an acoustic wave is propagating.     

Relativistic Spherical Plasma Waves in a Collisional and Warm Plasma

Under Lagrange coordinates, the relativistic spherical plasma wave in a collisional and warm plasma is discussed theoretically. Within the Lagrange coordinates and using the Maxwell and hydrodynamics equations, a wave equation describing the relativistic spherical wave is derived. The damped oscillating spherical wave solution is obtained analytically using the perturbation theory. Because of the coupled effects of spherical geometry,thermal pressure, and collision effect, the electron damps the periodic oscillation. The oscillation frequency and the damping rate of the wave are related to not only the collision and thermal pressure effect but also the space coordinate. Near the center of the sphere, the thermal pressure significantly reduces the oscillation period and the damping rate of the wave, while the collision effect can strongly influence the damping rate. Far away from the spherical center, only the collision effect can reduce the oscillation period of the wave, while the collision effect and thermal pressure have weak influence on the damping rate.     

Mikhel’son effect in a plasma

An analysis is made of the parametric frequency shift of an electromagnetic wave traveling in a plasma (isotropic collisionless, isotropic collisional, and magnetized collisionless) with time-varying parameters (Mikhel’son effect). Different situations corresponding to the growth of plasma concentration, a change of collision frequency, and a change of magnetic field are considered.     

Probe field spectroscopy in three-level Λ systems under arbitrary collisional relaxation of low-frequency coherence

We investigate theoretically the spectrum of weak probe field absorption by three-level atoms with the Λ configuration of levels in the field of a strong electromagnetic wave acting on an adjacent transition and colliding with buffer gas atoms. Analysis is carried out for the general case of arbitrary collisional relaxation of low-frequency coherence at a transition between two lower levels. It is shown that, in the absence of collisional relaxation of low-frequency coherence, the probe field spectrum always exhibits clearly manifested anisotropy with respect to mutual orientation of wavevectors of the strong and probe radiation (even under small Doppler broadening). It is found that the probe field spectrum may acquire under certain conditions supernarrow resonances with a width proportional to the diffusion coefficient for atoms interacting with radiation. This fact may form the basis for a spectroscopic method for measuring transport frequencies of collisions between absorbing and buffer particles. A large-amplitude supernarrow resonance (with an amplitude much larger than the amplitude of the resonance near the line center), which is observed in the far wing of the absorption line, exhibits collisional narrowing (a nonlinear spectroscopic analog of the Dicke effect) at collision frequencies several orders of magnitude lower that the Doppler linewidth. Simple working equations proposed for describing the probe field spectrum are convenient for experimental data processing.     

A planar relativistic electron beam in a plasma channel bounded by conducting walls

The force interaction of a relativistic electron beam with a plasma in a channel bounded by planegeometry highly conducting walls is studied. The steady-state interaction regime, ω=ku, is analyzed using the model of a cold collisional electron plasma. The formulas for the transverse component of the force acting on the beam electrons are derived for an arbitrary deviation of the beam from the symmetry plane of the channel.