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Reflection of a Plane Transient Electromagnetic Wave From a Cold Lossless Plasma Slab
Author(s) -
Wait James R.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
radio science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1944-799X
pISSN - 0048-6604
DOI - 10.1029/rs004i004p00401
Subject(s) - slab , physics , plasma , reflection (computer programming) , plane wave , electromagnetic radiation , laplace transform , bessel function , electromagnetic electron wave , transient (computer programming) , plane (geometry) , optics , computational physics , geophysics , mathematical analysis , geometry , mathematics , computer science , programming language , operating system , quantum mechanics
Reflection of a plane transient electromagnetic wave from a plasma half‐space and a plasma slab is considered. The plasma is assumed to be cold and collisions are neglected. Under these assumptions, the Laplace transforms may be inverted exactly, yielding a solution in the form of Bessel function series. The numerical results, for the waveform of the reflected field, exhibit features that are easily related to the plasma frequency of the slab and its thickness.