https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2003-00273-7
Nondispersive electromagnetic beams in plasmas
Institut Henri Poincaré, 86 bis route de Criossy, 78110 Le Vésinet, France
Corresponding author: a pierre.hillion@wanadoo.fr
Received:
23
April
2003
Revised:
12
June
2003
Published online:
9
September
2003
We prove that different modes of nondispersive electromagnetic beams can propagate in a stationary isotropic plasma. But, a stationary plasma in a uniform magnetic field may only support a mode at frequencies less than the angular cyclotron frequency.
PACS: 43.20.Bi – Mathematical theory of wave propagation / 41.20.Jb – Electromagnetic wave propagation; radiowave propagation / 52.35.Hr – Electromagnetic waves (e.g., electron-cyclotron, Whistler, Bernstein, upper hybrid, lower hybrid)
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2003
