Stimulated Emission of Fast Alfvén Waves within Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasmas
Stimulated Emission of Fast Alfvén Waves within Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasmas
A fast Alfvén wave with a finite amplitude is shown to grow by a stimulated emission process that we propose for exploitation in toroidal magnetically confined fusion plasmas. Stimulated emission occurs while the wave propagates inward through the outer midplane plasma, where a population inversion of the energy distribution of …