Im. Yakover et al., RESONATOR DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION FOR THE ISRAELI TANDEM ELECTROSTATIC FEL PROJECT, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 358(1-3), 1995, pp. 323-326
The design and measurements of a resonator operating near 100 GHz and
intended for use in a tandem FEL are presented. The designed resonator
employs two parallel curved plates as a waveguide. In FEL operation t
he TE(01) mode is excited. The resonator employs two wave splitters as
reflectors. The wave splitters are segments of an overmoded rectangul
ar waveguide which is connected at one end to the waveguide as describ
ed above, and is shorted at the other end by a metal plate with an ape
rture in the center for e-beam passage. Gain calculations were made in
the low gain regime. At the operating frequency the curvature of the
plates and the gap size were chosen so as to maximize the gain. A mult
imode analysis of the wave splitter was made. Calculations show, that
the optimal splitter width and length allow achievement of very low di
ffraction losses at the aperture (similar to 2%). This means that the
aperture can be made sufficiently large to allow efficient beam entran
ce into the resonator without degrading its Q-factor. A resonator prot
otype was constructed and its performance was evaluated experimentally
.