Abstract

The polarization evolution of electromagnetic radiation propagating through an electron beam-ion channel system is studied in the presence of the coupling instability. Employing the system’s dielectric tensor and the full four-component Stokes vector description, the obtained differential Mueller matrix is used to determine the polarization state of the initially polarized radiated wave at any arbitrary point in the system. It is shown that an unpolarized EM wave propagating through the electron beam-ion channel system will achieve a linearly polarization state aligned to the perpendicular self-magnetic field vector and propagation direction.

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