Excitation of terahertz radiation by an electron beam in a dielectric lined waveguide with rippled dielectric surface
- Center for Energy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi 110016 (India)
- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi 110016 (India)
A relativistic electron beam propagating through a dielectric lined waveguide, with ripple on the dielectric surface, excites a free electron laser type instability where ripple acts as a wiggler. The spatial modulation of permittivity in the ripple region couples a terahertz radiation mode to a driven mode of lower phase velocity, where the beam is in Cerenkov resonance with the slow mode. Both the modes grow at the expanse of beam energy. The terahertz frequency increases as the beam velocity increases. The growth rate of the instability goes as one third power of beam density.
- OSTI ID:
- 22086158
- Journal Information:
- Physics of Plasmas, Journal Name: Physics of Plasmas Journal Issue: 9 Vol. 19; ISSN PHPAEN; ISSN 1070-664X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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