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Implement the plasma critical density in the formulary #26

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pheuer opened this issue Jun 30, 2022 · 0 comments · Fixed by PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy#1664
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Implement the plasma critical density in the formulary #26

pheuer opened this issue Jun 30, 2022 · 0 comments · Fixed by PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy#1664
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pheuer commented Jun 30, 2022

The critical plasma density for a given frequency of light is the electron density at which the laser frequency equals the electron plasma frequency. This is an important quantity because light will not propagate above the critical density. As a result, laser light is deposited around this density in laser-solid interactions and optical plasma diagnostics only work below it.

It would be great if this formula was added to the PlasmaPy formulary.

@rocco8773 rocco8773 added the 2022 Issues created as part of the 2022 Hack Week. label Jul 10, 2022
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