Impulse response of a lossy magnetoplasma half-space

An exact solution for the transient reflected wave from a lossy magnetoplasma half-space is derived for the case of a vertically incident impulsive plane wave. The solution is expressed as an infnite series of modified Bessel functions of the first kind with complex argument. For small values of the collision and magnetic parameters, the exact solution is approximated in terms of a single integer-order Bessel function.