Influence of plasma turbulence on microwave propagation
| Autor: | Roddy G. L. Vann, Matthew Bryn Thomas, Eberhard Holzhauer, Jarrod Leddy, Alf Köhn |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
Physics
Scattering Turbulence Plasma turbulence FOS: Physical sciences Microwave propagation Radiation Condensed Matter Physics 01 natural sciences Electromagnetic radiation Physics - Plasma Physics 010305 fluids & plasmas Computational physics Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph) Wavelength Amplitude Nuclear Energy and Engineering 0103 physical sciences Physics::Accelerator Physics 010306 general physics |
| Zdroj: | Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion |
| ISSN: | 1361-6587 |
| Popis: | It is not fully understood how electromagnetic waves propagate through plasma density fluctuations when the size of the fluctuations is comparable with the wavelength of the incident radiation. In this paper, the perturbing effect of a turbulent plasma density layer on a traversing microwave beam is simulated with full-wave simulations. The deterioration of the microwave beam is calculated as a function of the characteristic turbulence structure size, the turbulence amplitude, the depth of the interaction zone and the size of the waist of the incident beam. The maximum scattering is observed for a structure size on the order of half the vacuum wavelength. The scattering and beam broadening was found to increase linearly with the depth of the turbulence layer and quadratically with the fluctuation strength. Consequences for experiments and 3D effects are considered. 16 pages, 13 figures. This is an author-created, un-copyedited version of an article submitted for publication in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. IoP Publishing Ltd is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it |
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