Applied physics
No. 5, 2002

Autoresonance interaction of electromagnetic impulse with collisionless plasma

V. P. Milantiev, V. A. Turikov

Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Moscow, Russia

The process of the high power electromagnetic pulse propagation in a collisionless plasma in the autoresonance regime is simulated by the particle-in-cell method. The case of the wave incidence from the vacuum and self-consistent processes excitation in the boundary plasma region is investi-gated. It is shown that the particle oscillations in the longitudinal electric field may lead to the break-up of the initial perturbation into several smaller size pulses.

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