Ion acoustic soliton experiments in a plasma

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Lonngren, KE [1 ]
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[1] Univ Iowa, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Dept Phys & Astron, Iowa City, IA 52240 USA
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10.1023/A:1006910004292
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
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This paper reviews recent laboratory experiments on ion acoustic solitons that are excited, propagate, and interact in a plasma. The solitons can be described with the Korteweg-deVries (KdV) equation, the modified Korteweg-deVries (mKdV) equation, or the Kadomtsev-Petviashvilli (KP) equation. The results should be applicable in nonlinear optics experiments.
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