Electromagnetic Waves, Materials, and Computation with MATLAB®

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Wave in Anisotropic Media and Magnetoplasma

12.1 Introduction

Plasma medium in the presence of a static magnetic eld behaves like an anisotropic

dielectric. Therefore, the rules of electromagnetic wave propagation are the same as those

of the light waves in crystals. Of course, in addition, we have to take into account the dis-

persive nature of the plasma medium.

The well-established Magnetoionic Theory [1–3] is concerned with the study of wave prop-

agation of an arbitrarily polarized plane wave in cold anisotropic plasma, where the direc-

tion of phase propagation of the wave is at an arbitrary angle to the direction of the ...