Depolarization Effects of Incoherently Scattered Electromagnetic Waves by Inhomogeneous Magnetized Plasma Slab

George Jandieri, Akira I shimaru, Vakhtang Jandieri

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DOI: 10.4236/jemaa.2011.311075                

Abstract

Scattering of the electromagnetic waves by a randomly inhomogeneous electrically gyrotropic slab are studied using the perturbation method. Second order statistical moments of the ordinary and extraordinary waves scattered by the magnetized plasma slab are obtained using the boundary conditions for an arbitrary correlation function of electron density fluctuations. Normalized correlation functions at quasi-longitudinal propagation along the external magnetic field are calculated for the carrier frequency 0.1 MHz and 40 MHz. Isolines of the normalized variance of Faraday angle are constructed for the anisotropic Gaussian correlation function at various anisotropy factors of irregularities. Obtained results are in a good agreement with the experimental data.

Keywords

Statistical Moments, Fluctuations, Irregularities, Magnetized Plasma, Depolarization, Scattering

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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