Low-frequency whistler waves excited by relativistic laser pulses
arXiv:2010.07779 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.102.053204
Abstract
It is shown by multi-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations that intense secondary whistler waves with special vortex-like field topology can be excited by a relativistic laser pulse in the highly magnetized, near-critical density plasma. Such whistler waves with lower frequencies obliquely propagate on both sides of the laser propagation axis. The energy conversion rate from laser to whistler waves can exceed 15%. Their dispersion relations and field polarization properties can be well explained by the linear cold-plasma model. The present work presents a new excitation mechanism of whistler modes extending to the relativistic regime and could also be applied in magnetically assisted fast ignition.
arXiv comment9 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. E
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