Plane-polarized helicon waves
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Plane-polarized helicon waves
By suitably adding rightand left-hand circularly polarized helicon waves in a cylinder, it is possible, in principle, to form linearly polarized modes, contrary to the notion that whistler waves must be circularly polarized. The plane-polarized component is accompanied by a left-hand circularly polarized component which vanishes on axis but becomes important at large radii. The field lines of t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Plasma Sources Science and Technology
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0963-0252,1361-6595
DOI: 10.1088/0963-0252/6/3/016