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Dynamo-optical effects in a plasma

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The propagation of electromagnetic waves in a nonuniformally moving cold electron plasma with no external magnetic field and collisions is considered. The motion is assumed to be stationary. It is shown that in the case of smooth variation of the parameters of the medium the trajectories of the rays in the zero approximation of geometric-optics are determined by the concentration distribution, while the motion leads to rotation of the polarization plane in the wave. For plane-stratified flow with a constant velocity gradient an exact solution of the equations is determined which constitutes the superposition of two independent waves that are elliptically polarized in opposite directions. The refraction law of these waves is found, and the corresponding reflection and penetration coefficients are calculated in the case of a layer having a finite thickness.

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  1. Gor'kii State University, USSR

    V. G. Gavrilenko, G. A. Lupanov & N. S. Stepanov

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  1. V. G. Gavrilenko
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 183–190, February, 1972.

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Gavrilenko, V.G., Lupanov, G.A. & Stepanov, N.S. Dynamo-optical effects in a plasma. Radiophys Quantum Electron 15, 138–143 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02209107

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