Nonlinear Mixing of Electromagnetic Waves in Plasmas
V. STEFAN 1,
B. I. COHEN 2, and
C. JOSHI 3
1 Research scientist at La Jolla Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037 and at S-Cubed, a Division of Maxwell Laboratories, Inc., La Jolla, CA 92037 and a research associate of the Institute for Nonlinear Science at the University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093.
2 Research scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory of the University of California, Livermore, CA 94550.
3 Associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024.
Recently, a strong research effort has been focused on applications of beat waves in plasma interactions. This research has important implications for various aspects of plasma physics and plasma technology. This article reviews the present status of the field and comments on plasma probing, heating of magnetically confined and laser plasmas, ionospheric plasma modification, beat-wave particle acceleration, beat-wave current drive in toroidal devices, beat wave—driven free-electron lasers, and phase conjugation with beat waves.
