Analysis of microwave propagation in a time-varying plasma slab with particle-in-cell simulations

Kun CHEN (陈坤); Chao CHANG (常超); Yongdong LI (李永东); Hongguang WANG (王洪广); Chunliang LIU (刘纯亮)

doi:10.1088/2058-6272/ab2a44

Plasma Science and Technology > 2019 > 21(10): 105501. > DOI: 10.1088/2058-6272/ab2a44

Kun CHEN (陈坤), Chao CHANG (常超), Yongdong LI (李永东), Hongguang WANG (王洪广), Chunliang LIU (刘纯亮). Analysis of microwave propagation in a time-varying plasma slab with particle-in-cell simulations[J]. Plasma Science and Technology, 2019, 21(10): 105501. DOI: 10.1088/2058-6272/ab2a44

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Analysis of microwave propagation in a time-varying plasma slab with particle-in-cell simulations

¹ Key Laboratory for Physical Electronics and Devices of the Ministry of Education, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, People's Republic of China
² School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, People's Republic of China

Funds: The project is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51677145, 11622542 and U1537210).

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Received Date: March 25, 2019
Revised Date: June 13, 2019
Accepted Date: June 16, 2019

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Continuous microwave propagation through a time-varying plasma and frequency up-conversion has been demonstrated by particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation. In principle, it is possible to transform a 2.45 GHz source radiation to an arbitrary larger frequency radiation. The energy conversion is also obtained by the theoretical analysis and has been testified by PIC simulation. The source wave was propagating in a parallel plate waveguide locally filled with the ionized gas. In this paper we would discuss the effects of the rise time, the plasma length, the switching time and the collision frequency on the energy conversion, and the methods to improve the upshift wave energy are proposed. We also put forward the new concept of the critical values of the rise time and the source wave amplitude to provide a theoretical basis for the selection of parameters in the experiments.
- continuous microwave,
- time-varying plasma,
- frequency up-conversion,
- particle-incell (PIC) simulation

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