EXTRAPOLATION OF THE FOM 1 MW FREE-ELECTRON MASER TO A MULTI-MEGAWATTMILLIMETER MICROWAVE SOURCE

Authors
CAPLAN M VALENTINI M VERHOEVEN A URBANUS W TULUPOV A
Citation
M. Caplan et al., EXTRAPOLATION OF THE FOM 1 MW FREE-ELECTRON MASER TO A MULTI-MEGAWATTMILLIMETER MICROWAVE SOURCE, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 393(1-3), 1997, pp. 295-299
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
393
Issue
1-3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
295 - 299
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1997)393:1-3<295:EOTF1M>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
A Free-Electron Maser is now under test at the FOM Institute (Rijnhuiz en, Netherlands) with the goal of producing 1 MW long pulse to CW micr owave output in the range 130-250 GHz with wall plug efficiencies of 6 0%. An extrapolated version of this device is proposed, which by scali ng up beam current and voltage, would produce microwave power levels o f up to 5 MW CW, thus reducing the cost per kilowatt and increasing th e power per module. This would allow for practical applications in suc h diverse areas such as space power beaming, heating effusion plasmas and heating of high Mach number wind tunnels.