where c is the speed of light in vacuum, k the wave number, m the angular frequency, and is the plasma frequency. The plasma frequency is related to the electron density as where f = w/2tt is the frequency. For a beam to transverse a path length L, the total phase change is where e = kf/fD is a small number. We may compare this phase with the downlink phase
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