Thermal Self-Focusing of Electromagnetic Waves in Plasmas
- 3 June 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 32 (22), 1234-1237
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.32.1234
Abstract
An intense electromagnetic wave propagating in a collisional plasma is found to be unstable to a thermal self-focusing instability by a self-consistent solution of the hydrodynamic, heat conductivity, and wave propagation equations. The results are applied to ionospheric modifications and proposed power transmission experiments, and to laser-plasma interactions.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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