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It is shown that upon the application of an external magnetic field, a gas of ionized particles may experience noninversive partial velocity amplification of radiation by ions due to their Larmor rotation. In this case, virtually all ions may be in the ground state. It may happen that approximately half the number of ions in the medium amplify the incident radiation. The integrated absorption coefficient remains positive due to the enhancement of absorption of radiation by the other half of ions. Noninversive amplification of radiation takes place when the condition ωc≳Γ2/kv T is satisfied ωwc is the cyclotron frequency of ions in the magnetic field; Γ is the homogeneous half-width of the absorption line for ions, and kv T is the Doppler width). In the case of interaction of atomic ions with radiation in the optical range, this corresponds to magnetic fields B≳600 G (for the ion mass M∼10 amu). Noninversive partial velocity amplification of radiation is a “latent” effect in the sense that it disappears upon averaging over all velocity directions of ions. This effect is associated with the emergence of phase incursion of the induced dipole moment oscillations for ions moving in circular cyclotron orbits, which depends on the ion velocity.
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Translated from Zhurnal Éksperimental’no\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) i Teoretichesko\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) Fiziki, Vol. 121, No. 4, 2002, pp. 838–846.
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Parkhomenko, A.I. Noninversive partial velocity amplification of radiation by ions due to their rotation in a magnetic field. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 94, 720–727 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1477896
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