San Qiu Liu
Articles written in Pramana – Journal of Physics
Volume 78 Issue 3 March 2012 pp 439-449 Research Articles
Modulation instability of an intense laser beam in an unmagnetized electron–positron–ion plasma
San Qiu Liu Wei Tang Xiao Qing Li
The modulation instability of an intense circularly polarized laser beam propagating in an unmagnetized, cold electron–positron–ion plasma is investigated. Adopting a generalized Karpman method, a three-dimensional nonlinear equation is shown to govern the laser field. Then the conditions for modulation instability and the temporal growth rate are obtained analytically. In order to compare with the usual electron–ion plasmas, the effect of positron concentration is considered. It is found that the increase in positron-to-electron density ratio shifts the instability region towards higher vertical wave numbers but does not cause displacement along the parallel wave number direction, and the growth rate increases as the positron-to-electron density ratio increases.
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