Collision frequency effect on plasma-filled transversely magnetized rectangular waveguide characteristics

Abstract

The characteristics of a rectangular waveguide filled with homogeneous lossy plasma in the presence of a strong magnetic field are discussed. The B-ω curves are drawn from the dispersion relation for different values of collision frequency and the results are compared with the characteristics of transversely magnetized plasma-filled rectangular waveguides without including the effect of collisions. It is found that the effect of the collision frequency is that the non-propagating region is limited to a point dependent on wave-number in the direction of the magnetic field and independent of values of collision frequency. © 1972 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.