Experimental Study of Wave Propagation Through a Rapidly Created Plasma

Spencer P. Kuo; Angqing Ren

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Experimental Study of Wave Propagation Through a Rapidly Created Plasma

Spencer P. Kuo, Angqing Ren

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Frequency up conversion and converting a CW source microwave into a frequency up-shifted and chirped periodic pulse have been demonstrated by two experiments. In the first one, the CW source microwave propagates through a periodically microwave-discharged plasma. The CW source microwave is converted into a periodic pulse having up-shifted carrier frequency. The second one uses a high voltage (~100 KV) DC discharge to generate a dense plasma suddenly between two parallel plates. A frequency up-shifted and chirped pulse (~2 ns) converting from the CW source microwave interacting with the suddenly created plasma is observed. The central frequency (~6.4 GHz) of the pulse is up-shifted from the frequency (~4.7 GHz) of the source wave by about 40%. Moreover, frequency components which are up-shifted as high as 80% are also observed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	53-56
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
Volume	21
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/27.221101
State	Published - Feb 1993

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