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Parametric excitation of electrostatic whistler wave and electron Bernstein wave by extraordinary EM wave

Authors :
R.P. Sharma
M. Sugawa
A. Kumar
S. Isobe
Source :
IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. 23:980-986
Publication Year :
1995
Publisher :
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1995.

Abstract

In the present paper, the parametric decay instability of an extraordinary electromagnetic wave (X-wave) into an electron Bernstein wave (EBW) and an electrostatic whistler wave (W-wave) has been studied. Expressions are derived for homogeneous threshold, growth rate, and convective threshold for this instability. The relevance of the present parametric process has been pointed out to explain the generation of whistler mode radiations in the SL-2 experiment, ionospheric modification experiment, in the polar cusp region of the magnetosphere, as well as during intense electron cyclotron resonance heating in the MTX tokamak.

Details

ISSN :
00933813
Volume :
23
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........ae40ee956f71ddb3a65af146b16f7cf0
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1109/27.476486