On the Dispersion Properties of Waveguides Filled with a Magnetized Plasma
- Karazin National University, pl. Svobody 4, Kharkov, 61077 (Ukraine)
- Technische Universitaet Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg, 21073 (Germany)
A study is made of the dispersion properties of waveguides filled with a magnetized plasma. It is shown that the eigenmodes of the waveguides filled with a low-density magnetized plasma fall into two families, which are weakly coupled to one another at all frequencies, in particular, in the cyclotron resonance frequency range. These families differ in transverse wavenumbers and the modes in them have hybrid polarization. Attention is focused on the study of the modes that have predominantly TE polarization at frequencies close to the cutoff frequency. The dependence of the critical frequencies of the TE modes on the plasma frequency, as well as the influence of the plasma on the energy flux and energy density of these modes, is investigated. The effect of mode crowding (the existence of an arbitrarily large number of dispersion curves in a finite frequency range between the cyclotron frequency and the upper hybrid frequency) is examined in detail. The results obtained are used to analyze how the plasma affects the electromagnetic properties of the cavity of the 1-MW 140-GHz continuous-wave gyrotron developed at the Institute of Pulsed and Microwave Technology of the Research Center in Karlsruhe, Germany (Institut fuer Hochleistungsimpuls- und Mikrowellentechnik Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe) for plasma heating in the W7-X stellarator, which is being constructed in Greifswald, Germany.
- OSTI ID:
- 20718015
- Journal Information:
- Plasma Physics Reports, Vol. 31, Issue 7; Other Information: Translated from Fizika Plazmy, ISSN 0367-2921, 31, 647-654 (No. 7, 2005); DOI: 10.1134/1.1992587; (c) 2005 Pleiades Publishing, Inc; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); TN:; ISSN 1063-780X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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