Terahertz gyrotrons with quasi-regular cavities
We describe two ways of the use in high-harmonic gyrotrons of quasi-regular cavities with short irregularities formed by the widening of cavity radius. The first one is a significant improvement of the selectivity of the second-harmonic gyrotrons due to the supression of parasitic near-cutoff fundamental-harmonic waves. The second approach is aimed to solve a typical problem of weakly-relativistic high-harmonics gyrotrons, namely, the use of long cavities ensuring extremely high diffraction Q-factors and a great share of Ohmic losses. We propose a quasi-regular cavity with periodic phase correctors, where a far-from-cutoff axial mode with a decreased diffraction Q-factor is excited in a gyrotron-like regime.
A method for suppression of spurious fundamental-harmonic waves in gyrotrons operating at the second cyclotron harmonic
A typical problem of gyrotrons operating at high harmonics of the electron cyclotron frequency is the suppression of parasitic near-cutoff waves excited at lower harmonics. In this paper, a method for a significant improvement of the selectivity of the second-harmonic gyrotrons is proposed. This method is based on the use of quasi-regular cavities with short irregularities, which provide different effects on the process of excitation of the operating second-harmonic wave and the spurious fundamental-harmonic wave by the electron beam.
The coaxial gyrotron with two electron beams. II. Dual frequency operation
The dual frequency operation (DFO) of the coaxial gyrotron with two electron beams (CGTB) has been investigated in this part by means of both linear theory and computer simulation. In such an operation, the cavity is at degeneration and one beam works at the first harmonic while another at high harmonic. Making use of the coupled-mode theory, the dispersion equation considering the coupling of two beams and two modes has been obtained. The results of the numerical calculation and the particle in cell simulation show that CGTB with DFO can obtain high output power at two different frequencies simultaneously. In addition, the power of the high harmonic can be enhanced due to the nonlinear coupling between two beams, and some interesting and important phenomena of CGTB with DFO revealed in the paper are of significance in physics.