Stimulated Brillouin scattering of an electromagnetic wave in a strongly magnetized plasma

In a strongly magnetized nonisothermal plasma, a large amplitude electromagnetic wave propagating at an angle θ0 to a strong magnetic field undergoes stimulated Brillouin scattering off the ion mode. In an isothermal plasma the process goes over to stimulated Compton scattering with considerably lower growth rate. In both cases the growth rate is sensitive to the angle θ=(θ1−θ0), where θ0 is the angle of the pump wave vector k0 with the dc magnetic field, Bsẑ, and θ1 is the angle of the sideband wave vector k1 with Bsẑ.