Abstract
A mechanism of communication through plasma sheaths which surround vehicles traveling at hypersonic velocities is proposed. The idea is to place a source of an intensive, high frequency electromagnetic pump wave on the vehicle and to use the nonlinearity of the medium to create a backscattered Stokes wave through the interaction of the pump wave with the signal-carrying wave sent by a ground transmitter. Such an interaction will be mediated by the plasma oscillations generated in the process of the resonant absorption of the signal-carrying wave. The advantages of this mechanism for information transfer are that the high frequency pump wave only is present in a small region near the vehicle and that the signal wave can have relatively low frequency.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2827-2834 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Physics of Plasmas |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue number | 9 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1994 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Condensed Matter Physics