PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS WITH SHORT ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSES
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The propagation of short electromagnetic pulses in an ionized medium and the reflection of transient pulses from bounded ionized regions is discussed. Analyticai expressions for transient oscillations in reflected and propagated electromagnetic fields excited by a unidirectional pulse are derived for certain simple cases. The transient oscillations show a periodicity that is directly related to the plasma frequency and are useful for nearly instantaneous plasma diagnostics. An experiment is des…
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Date:
July 1, 1963
Creator:
Schmitt, H.J.
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