Aimed at research scientists, en- gineers and graduate students, this book presents a comprehensive account of a variety of important effects of electromagnetic fields in plasmas. It will be of particular relevance to those interested in tokamaks and laser fusion.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Analytical Methods for the Calculation of Quasienergy States (QS) of Quantum Systems.- 2.1 Interaction of Quantum Systems with a Nonstationary Field.- 2.2 Perturbation Theory for QSs of Degenerate Quantum Systems.- 2.3 High-Frequency or Very Intense Nonstationary Fields.- 3. Action of One-Dimensional Quasimonochromatic Electric Fields (QEF) on Coulomb Emitters.- 3.1 Splitting of Hydrogen-like Spectral Lines in a Single-Mode QEF.- 3.2 Splitting of Hydrogen-like Spectral Lines in a Multimode QEF.- 3.3 Impact Broadening of Hydrogen-like Spectral Lines.- 3.4 Frequency-integrated Radiative Characteristics of Hydrogen-like Emitters Interacting with a Resonant Laser Field and a Low-Frequency QEF.- 4. Action of Multidimensional Dynamic Electric Fields on Coulomb Emitters.- 4.1 Splitting of Hydrogen-like Spectral Lines in a Plane Polarized QEF.- 4.2 Joint Action of QEF and Quasistatic EF on Hydrogen-like Spectral Lines.- 4.3 Hydrogen-like Spectral Lines in a High-Frequency or Strong QEF with a Quasistatic EF.- 5. Action of a One-Dimensional QEF on Non-Coulomb Emitters.- 5.1 Satellites of Dipole-Forbidden Spectral Lines Caused by a Nonresonant Action of QEFs (Three-Level Scheme).- 5.2 Satellites of Dipole-Forbidden Spectral Lines in Resonant QEFs. Three-Level Scheme.- 5.3 Satellites of Dipole-Forbidden Spectral Lines in More Complicated (Four-Level) Systems.- 5.4 Electron Oscillatory Shift in Plasmas Interacting with a Powerful Coherent Radiation.- 5.5 Action of QEFs on Diatomic Polar Molecules.- 5.6 Frequency-Integrated Radiative Characteristics of Non-Coloumb Emitters Interacting with a Resonant Laser Field and Low-Frequency QEF.- 6. Non-Coulomb Emitters Under Multidimensional Dynamic EFs (Elliptically Polarized QEFs; Quasistatic EF plus QEF).- 6.1 Satellites of Dipole-Forbidden Spectral Lines Caused by an Elliptically Polarized QEF.- 6.2 Joint Action of QEF and Intraplasmic Quasistatic EF on Non-Coulomb Emitters.- 6.3 Shift of Spectral Lines of Diatomic Polar Molecules in an Elliptically Polarized QEF.- 7. Applications of the Theory to Experimental Plasma Diagnostics.- 7.1 Preliminary Remarks.- 7.2 QEFs in ?-Pinches.- 7.3 QEFs in a Z-Pinch.- 7.4 New Features of Intra-Stark Spectroscopy Caused by a High Density of Plasmas.- 7.5 QEFs in Tokamaks.- 7.6 QEFs in Plasmas Interacting with a Strong Microwave Field.- Appendices.- D Generalized QSs of a Hydrogen Atom in a Bichromatic EF.- E Influence of Bound Electrons on the Frequency and Damping of Langmuir Oscillations.- References.