Abstract

According to the standard scenario of plasma emission, escaping radiations are generated by the nonlinear development of the kinetic bump-on-tail instability driven by a single beam of energetic electrons interacting with plasmas. Here, we conduct fully-kinetic electromagnetic particle-in-cell simulations to investigate plasma emission induced by the ring-distributed energetic electrons interacting with overdense plasmas. Efficient excitations of the fundamental (F) and harmonic (H) emissions are revealed with radiation mechanism(s) different from the standard scenario: (1) The primary modes accounting for the radiations are generated through the electron cyclotron maser instability [for the upper-hybrid (UH) and Z modes] and the thermal anisotropic instability [for the whistler (W) mode]; the F emission is generated by the nonlinear coupling of the Z and W modes and the H emission by the nonlinear coupling of the UH modes. This presents an alternative mechanism of coherent radiation in overdense plasmas.

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