Interaction of a charge with a plane wave in a medium

The problem of simulating the energy state of a relativistic charge in the field of a circularly polarized plane wave and longitudinal magnetic field in a medium with the refractive index knot equal1 is analyzed. The classical description of the interaction reduces to the integration of the Maxwell-Lorentz equation. The presence of a medium leads to qualitative changes in the charge dynamics. An exact analytic representation of the energy of an ensemble of relativistic charges as a function of the average flight coordinate (z) over bar is obtained for k=1. Moreover, the asymptotic approximation for knot equal1 is constructed in the first approximation in mu=1-1/k(2) by the Van der Pol method. (C) 2003 MAIK "Nauka/Interperiodica".