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A new regime of the sliding propagation of microwave radiation in plasma waveguides in atmospheric air has been investigated experimentally and theoretically. A plasma waveguide whose radius is much larger than the radiation wavelength has been created by the photoionization of an easily ionized impurity by the ultraviolet radiation of a KrF laser. The transfer of a 35.3-GHz microwave signal to a distance of 60 m has been demonstrated. The transfer mechanism is due to the total internal reflection of the wave on the optically less dense walls of the plasma waveguide.
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Original Russian Text © V.D. Zvorykin, A.O. Levchenko, N.N. Ustinovskii, I.V. Smetanin, 2010, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Éksperimental’noĭ i Teoreticheskoĭ Fiziki, 2010, Vol. 91, No. 5, pp. 244–248.
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Zvorykin, V.D., Levchenko, A.O., Ustinovskii, N.N. et al. Transfer of microwave radiation in sliding mode plasma waveguides. Jetp Lett. 91, 226–230 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S002136401005005X
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