Interaction of plasma medium with electromagnetic waves

The electrical properties of plasma are important in applications of electromagnetic are the conductivity, electrical permittivity and magnetic permeability. With these parameters known, propagation of electromagnetic waves in plasma can be inspected thoroughly. Since ions and electrons are the constituents of plasma, interaction of electromagnetic waves with the plasma can be formulated by starting from the behavior of a single charged particle under the effect of an electromagnetic wave. Throughout this paper, theory of interaction of electromagnetic waves with plasmas is introduced.