Self-induced erosion and spectral breaking of high-power microwave pulses

Autor: K. Madsen, M. Lisak, David G. Anderson, A. Kim
Rok vydání: 2000
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Zdroj: Journal of Plasma Physics. 63:329-341
ISSN: 1469-7807
0022-3778
DOI: 10.1017/s0022377800008321
Popis: An analysis is made of the phenomenon of self-induced erosion and spectral breaking of ionizing high-power microwave pulses propagating in a gas. The analysis describes in an analytically explicit and physically clear way the consistent interaction between the microwave pulse and the self-induced breakdown plasma. In particular, it clarifies, both qualitatively and quantitatively, the mechanisms behind the pulse erosion and the spectral breaking phenomenon, i.e. the splitting of the pulse spectrum into a redshifted and a blueshifted peak as observed in numerical simulation results as well as in experiments.
Databáze: OpenAIRE