The anomalous penetration of intense circularly polarized electromagnetic beam through overdense magnetized plasma |
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Authors: | Meenu Asthana Varshney Bhavna Rathore Dinesh Varshney |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Physics, M. B. Khalsa College, Indore 452002, India;2. School of Physics, Vigyan Bhavan, Devi Ahilya University, Khandwa road Campus, Indore 452001, India;3. School of Instrumentation, USIC Bhavan, Devi Ahilya University, Khandwa road Campus, Indore 452001, India |
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Abstract: | The steady state nonlinear propagation of an intense, circularly polarized electromagnetic beam in an inhomogeneous magnetized plasma has been investigated in paraxial approximation. The laser induces a large oscillatory velocity on electrons, raising their mass and lowering the plasma frequency. Further, rising due to cyclotron resonance effect. The propagation of the electromagnetic waves in magnetized plasma in both the extraordinary and ordinary mode is analyzed. The nonlinearity in dielectric function is considered in presence of external magnetic field due to saturation effects for arbitrary large intensity, which leads to focusing/defocusing of the beam. The focusing effect along with magnetic field helps in the process of anomalous penetration of the beam by enhancing the depletion of the plasma from the axial region. The penetration increases with the incident beam power up to some critical value beyond which it rises abruptly when all electrons have been driven out of the axis. The cyclotron resonance effect awfully supports the laser beam to propagate inside the overdense plasma region. Numerical computations are performed for typical parameters of relativistic laser–plasma interaction applicable for underdense and overdense plasma. |
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