Self-Interaction of Electron Plasma Waves in a Planar Plasma-Filled Waveguide

✍ Scribed by B. Ghosh; K. P. Das

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 373 KB
• Volume: 27
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0005-8025
• DOI: 10.1002/ctpp.19870270108

✦ Synopsis

Nonlinear behaviour of electron plasma waves propagating in a planar plasma-loaded waveguide immersed in an infinite magnetic field is analysed including finite temperature and mobile ion effects. It is shown that the wave becomes modulationally unstable if the wavenumber exceeds certain critical value K,, which decreases with rise of temperature. The growth rate of instability is calculated and is found to increase with the rise of temperature.