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Wave beams in inhomogeneous anisotropic and gyrotropic media

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We generalize the quasioptical description of wave beams to the case of smoothly inhomogeneous anisotropic and gyrotropic media. For brevity of the presentation, we choose a cold collisionless magnetoplasma as an example of such a medium, although the main obtained results are also valid (with some corrections) for media with spatial dispersion. For the amplitude-phase envelope of the beam, an evolution equation is derived and some of its features are analyzed.

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  1. Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

    A. A. Balakin, M. A. Balakina, G. V. Permitin & A. I. Smirnov

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 50, No. 12, pp. 1058–1076, December 2007.

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Balakin, A.A., Balakina, M.A., Permitin, G.V. et al. Wave beams in inhomogeneous anisotropic and gyrotropic media. Radiophys Quantum El 50, 955–972 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11141-007-0090-0

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