a Advanced Photon Research Center, JAERI, Kyoto, Japan
b Institute for Plasma Physics, CNR, Milan, Italy
c General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia
Abstract:
An elliptically polarized electromagnetic wave in an underdense plasma acquires a longitudinal component of the electric field which oscillates as even harmonics of the fundamental frequency. The phase shift between transverse field components and the wave amplitudes exhibit nonlinear oscillations.