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PLASMA, GASES

Parametric transformation of the amplitude and frequency of a whistler wave in a magnetoactive plasma

A. V. Kostrov, M. E. Gushchin, S. V. Korobkov, A. V. Strikovskii

Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhnii Novgorod

Abstract: The results of experiments studying the propagation of a high-frequency whistler wave in a magnetized plasma duct in the presence of an intense low-frequency wave also related to the whistler frequency range are reported. Amplitude-frequency modulation of the high-frequency whistler wave trapped in the duct was observed. A deep amplitude modulation of the signal that can lead to its splitting into separate wave packets is observed. It is shown that an increase in the wave propagation path leads to a broadening of the wave frequency spectrum and to a shift of the signal spectrum predominantly toward the red side. The transformation of the frequency of the high-frequency wave is related with the time-dependent perturbation of the external magnetic field by the field of the low-frequency whistler wave (the relative perturbation of the magnetic field $\delta B/B \leq 5\cdot 10^{-2}$).

PACS: 52.25.Xz, 52.35.-g, 52.72.+v

Received: 22.09.2003

 English version: Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters, 2003, 78:9, 538–541

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