A double plasma device consists of two plasma volumes, electrically separated by a conducting grid and biased to different plasma potentials. By manipulating the potential difference, a controlled plasma flow from one volume into the other can be generated. With the help of a harmonically modulated potential difference, plasma waves can be excited. Using different modulation frequencies allows ...

ALagrangian fluid model ~cold plasma, fixed ions! is developed for analyzing the coupling between electron plasma waves. This model shows that a small wave number electron plasma wave (v2 ,k2) will strongly affect a large wave number electron plasma wave (v1 ,k1), transferring its energy into daughter waves or sidebands at (v11nv2 ,k11nk2) in the lab frame. The accuracy of the model is checked ...

Electromagnetically induced transparency ~EIT!, a phenomenon well known in atomic systems, has a natural analogy in a classical magnetized plasma. The magnetized plasma has a resonance for right-hand polarized electromagnetic waves at the electron cyclotron frequency V0 , so that a probe wave with frequency v15V0 cannot propagate through the plasma. The plasma can be made transparent to such a ...

Submitted for the DPP09 Meeting of The American Physical Society Control of drift wave turbulence by driven plasma currents OLAF GRULKE, CHRISTIAN BRANDT, STEFAN ULLRICH, KIAN RAHBARNIA, THOMAS KLINGER, MPI for Plasma Physics, EURATOM Association, D-17491 Greifswald — The anomalous transport in the plasma edge of fusion devices is believed to be dominated by the drift wave instability, which is...

The parametric excitation of pairs of electron surface waves (ESW) in the interaction of an ultrashort, intense laser pulse with an overdense plasma is discussed using an analytical model. The plasma has a simple step-like density profile. The ESWs can be excited either by the electric or by the magnetic part of the Lorentz force exerted by the laser and, correspondingly, have frequencies aroun...

A nonlinear multiwave model that describes the interaction of an electron beam, plasma waves, and electromagnetic waves in a cold plasma is derived and studied. The derivation, which is based on slow amplitude and phase change approximations, begins with the electromagnetic Lagrangian coupled to an electron beam, a background plasma, and electrostatic and electromagnetic waves. The model obtain...