Dispersive characteristics and longitudinal resonance properties in a relativistic backward wave oscillator with the coaxial arbitrary-profile slow-wave structure
- College of Photoelectric Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073 (China)
The method for calculating the dispersion relations of the slow-wave structures (SWSs) with arbitrary geometrical structures is studied in detail by using the Fourier series expansion. In addition, dispersive characteristics and longitudinal resonance properties of the SWSs with the cosinusoidal, trapezoidal, and rectangular corrugations are analyzed by numerical calculation. Based on the above discussion, a comparison on an L-band coaxial relativistic backward wave oscillator (BWO) and an L-band coaxial BWO with a coaxial extractor is investigated in detail with particle-in-cell KARAT code (V. P. Tarakanov, Berkeley Research Associates, Inc., 1992). Furthermore, experiments are carried out at the TORCH-01 accelerator under the low guiding magnetic field. At diode voltage of 647 kV, beam current of 9.3 kA, and guiding magnetic field strength of 0.75 T, the microwave is generated with power of 1.07 GW, mode of TM{sub 01}, and frequency of 1.61 GHz. That is the first experimental report of the L-band BWO.
- OSTI ID:
- 21274278
- Journal Information:
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 16, Issue 11; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3254375; (c) 2009 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1070-664X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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