RESULTS FROM GYROTRON BACKWARD-WAVE OSCILLATOR EXPERIMENTS UTILIZING A HIGH-CURRENT HIGH-VOLTAGE ANNULAR ELECTRON-BEAM

Authors
SPENCER TA DAVIS CE HENDRICKS KJ AGEE FJ GILGENBACH RM
Citation
Ta. Spencer et al., RESULTS FROM GYROTRON BACKWARD-WAVE OSCILLATOR EXPERIMENTS UTILIZING A HIGH-CURRENT HIGH-VOLTAGE ANNULAR ELECTRON-BEAM, IEEE transactions on plasma science, 24(3), 1996, pp. 630-635
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Phsycs, Fluid & Plasmas
Journal title
IEEE transactions on plasma science → ACNP
ISSN journal
00933813
Volume
24
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
630 - 635
Database
ISI
SICI code
0093-3813(1996)24:3<630:RFGBOE>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
We report the first gyrotron-backward-wave-oscillator experiments whic h utilize a high-current (1-4 kA) high-voltage (300-500 keV) annular e lectron beam. The experiment was designed to operate in the TE(01) bac kward wave mode, Radio frequency extracted power was 0.1-4 MW, with pu lselengths of 80-500 ns. Experimental results suggest the possibility of competition with the TE(21) backward wave mode. Frequency spectrum measurements have shown a wide content of frequencies during the volta ge pulse, an undesirable result for use in narrow-hand devices.