Nonlinear Decay Instability and Parametric Amplification of Cyclotron-Harmonic Plasma Waves
- 21 April 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 22 (16), 826-829
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.22.826
Abstract
Experimental observation of the resonant mode-mode coupling type of nonlinear decay instability and parametric amplification of cyclotron-harmonic waves is reported. The instability is due to the scattering of finite amplitude waves.Keywords
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