G. Dearden et al., SPONTANEOUS EMISSION MEASUREMENTS FROM A LOW-VOLTAGE PRE-BUNCHED ELECTRON-BEAM, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 375(1-3), 1996, pp. 179-182
Measurements have been carried out on the spontaneous microwave (8.25
GHz) emission which results when a low-voltage (55.5 kV), pre-bunched
electron beam is passed through a waveguide in a wiggler magnetic fiel
d. The variation of the spontaneous emission output power level with t
he average electron beam energy and current are reported and compared
with a recently presented theory. The effect of the degree of bunching
of the electron beam on the spontaneous output has also been observed
and is again compared with theory.