Abstract
A nonlinear instability theory is presented for stimulated scattering of electromagnetic ordinary-mode radiation from electrostatic ’’diffusion modes.’’ These ’’diffusion modes’’ are excited unstable by the incident radiation, and have their linear damping rates proportional to the diffusion tensor. Two diffusion modes are found; one corresponds to thermal diffusion and the other to particle diffusion. The thermal diffusion mode was previously calculated by Berger, Goldman, and DuBois for a two-dimensional model. The present calculation is made for three dimensions to show that the radiation is scattered over a wide angle in the plane perpendicular to a uniform magnetic field. A three-dimensional model is necessary to determine nonlienar effects. The saturated level of the electrostatic diffusion modes is calculated explicitly. For ionospheric modification experiments it is found that the electron density fluctuations are almost 1% of the ambient electron density.
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