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VOLUME 39 (1984) | ISSUE 10 | PAGE 453
Mechanism for an absolute parametric instability of an inhomogeneous plasma
The structure of plasma oscillations in a region of parametric spatial amplification has been studied experimentally for the first time. A new mechanism for an absolute parametric instability has been observed. This mechanism operates when a pump wave with a spatial structure more complicated than a plane wave propagates through a plasma which is inhomogeneous along more than one dimension.