• DocumentCode
    1925976
  • Title

    Electric and magnetic antennas as REAL transmission lines in plasma and the miracle of self-focusing of whistler mode propagation

  • Author

    Bibl, Klaus

  • Author_Institution
    Center for Atmos. Res., Univ. of Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    13-20 Aug. 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    When one considers the losses in an antenna impedance measurement of the Very-low Frequency RPI experiment in space mostly caused by local electrons and ions flowing into the antenna and the spacecraft, instead of radiation, because these losses were non-linear with voltage, and can explain the excellent recordings of multi-bounce whistler mode echoes as self-focused in spite of low power, the search for new antenna configurations is required if high-power transmission is necessary. Understanding the antenna in plasma as a real transmission line, leads to a magnetic-electric antenna, end-loaded with capacity.
  • Keywords
    antennas in plasma; astrophysical plasma; atmospheric measuring apparatus; atmospheric techniques; plasma electromagnetic wave propagation; plasma waves; transmission line theory; whistlers; VLF RPI experiment; antenna impedance losses; antenna impedance measurement; antenna in plasma; electric antennas; high power transmission; local electrons; local ions; magnetic antennas; magnetic-electric antenna; multibounce whistler mode echoes; real transmission line; transmission lines in plasma; whistler mode propagation self focusing; Antenna measurements; Magnetic fields; Plasmas; Power transmission lines; Transmission line antennas;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, 2011 XXXth URSI
  • Conference_Location
    Istanbul
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5117-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/URSIGASS.2011.6051128
  • Filename
    6051128