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The potentialities of the diagnostic method for determining the plasma parameters by recording the surface waves guided by a dielectric waveguide and scattered by plasma oscillations are discussed. The use of surface (slowed) waves makes it possible to improve both the sensitivity and spatial resolution of measurements. The scattering is the most intense near the waveguide cutoff, at which the dependence of the wave propagation constant on the plasma density is the steepest. It is shown experimentally that the method proposed makes it possible to determine the discharge plasma density and electron energy and to estimate the amplitude of the RF field of the plasma waves forming the discharge and the amplitude of plasma density oscillations in these waves. The data obtained from the measurements of the amplitudes of both high-and low-frequency plasma density oscillations by the proposed method agree satisfactorily with theoretical predictions. The experimental data on the plasma density are confirmed by other diagnostic measurements. The ways of reducing measurement errors are proposed.
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Translated from Fizika Plazmy, Vol. 28, No. 4, 2002, pp. 307–318.
Original Russian Text Copyright © 2002 by Markov, Khazanov.
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Markov, G.A., Khazanov, I.V. Diagnostics of plasma oscillations by the field of surface waves guided by a dielectric waveguide. Plasma Phys. Rep. 28, 274–285 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1469168
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