Propagation of electromagnetic waves through turbulent plasma using transport theory

Transport methods have been employed to study the propagation of a narrow-angle electromagnetic beam through a turbulent plasma. Results are presented for the mean-square angular divergence of the beam, the beam cross section, and the power received by a planar aperture in the medium and the mutual coherence function. The problem of backscattered radiation is also considered and results are obtained which reduce, in the limit of zero true absorption, to previous results.