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Plasma and Fusion Research

Volume 7, 1301086 (2012)

Letters

Observation of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Numerical Magnetized Plasma Experiment
Eiichirou KAWAMORI
Institute of Space, Astrophysical and Plasma Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, 70101, Taiwan
(Received 19 January 2012 / Accepted 1 May 2012 / Published 26 July 2012)

Abstract

We report the observation, in a particle-in-cell simulation, of a phenomenon in which a magnetized plasma absorbing an electron cyclotron wave is rendered transparent by a pump wave, which is a classical analog to electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in quantum physics. Evident mode coupling between the probe electron cyclotron wave and the pump wave driving the longitudinal plasma oscillation, which is required for the realization of EIT, is identified in addition to an observation of the electron cyclotron wave recapturing propagation in the magnetized plasma.

Keywords

electromagnetically induced transparency, electron cyclotron wave, mode coupling

DOI: 10.1585/pfr.7.1301086

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This paper may be cited as follows:

Eiichirou KAWAMORI, Plasma Fusion Res. 7, 1301086 (2012).