Radiative transport analysis of electromagnetic propagation in isotropic plasma turbulence
Abstract
The problem of electromagnetic wave propagation in a turbulent plasma is formulated in terms of the radiative transport equation. A singular eigenfunction solution is obtained for the case of isotropic plasma turbulence, and detailed numerical calculations are presented. The intensity distribution is studied as a function of the turbulent spectrum and relative strength of scattering attenuation to total attenuation. For a highly forward peaked scattering law characteristic of many physical situations it is found that the reflected backscatter intensity is relatively insensitive to the angle of incidence, except as grazing incidence is approached. The importance of multiple scatter is studied as a function of the properties of the medium.
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© 1971 American Institute of Physics. Received 21 July 1971; final manuscript received 29 March 1972. The authors would like to express their gratitude to the many people who contributed to this work. In particular we wish to thank J.T. Fleck of the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory and N.J. McCormick of the University of Washington for their suggestions in helping to overcome the computational difficulties. We also want to thank T.O. Philips and A.M. Levine of Bell Telephone Laboratories and S.N. Samaddar and K.R. Edwards of the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory with whom we had many instructive discussions on the interpretation of the results. This work was supported by Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory Internal Research funds.Attached Files
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