Transient response of a cold lossless plasma half‐space in the presence of a transverse static magnetic field

摘要

An analytical expression for the transient reflected field is given for the case of normal incidence of a linearly polarized impulsive plane wave on a lossless cold homogeneous plasma half‐space in the presence of a transverse static magnetic field of arbitrary strength. This result thus removes the restriction of small anisotropy imposed by previous workers who used the perturbation method. Several curves illustrating the influence of the anisotropy are presented.