High-power operation of a 170 GHz megawatt gyrotron
- Plasma Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (United States)
Recent gyrotron oscillator experiments have achieved record powers at 170 GHz. Single mode emission with a peak output power of 1.5 MW and an efficiency of 35{percent} has been measured. The experiment is based on a resonant TE{sub 28,8,1} cylindrical cavity situated in a 6.7 T magnetic field. Microwaves are generated in the cavity by an 83 kV annular electron beam produced by a triode-type magnetron injection gun that is capable of currents up to 50 A. Megawatt power levels with efficiencies between 30{percent}{endash}36{percent} have been measured over a wide range of operating parameters for the TE{sub 28,8,1} mode. Similar results were also achieved in the neighboring TE{sub 27,8,1} mode at 166.6 GHz, and the TE{sub 29,8,1} mode at 173.5 GHz. The high output power is the result of a carefully designed electron gun with low perpendicular velocity spread (6{percent}{endash}10{percent}) and a novel cavity with an output iris that is less prone to mode competition. These results are in good agreement with nonlinear multimode simulations. {copyright} {ital 1997 American Institute of Physics.}
- DOE Contract Number:
- FC02-93ER54186
- OSTI ID:
- 560644
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-961102-; ISSN 1070-664X; TRN: 9708M0180
- Journal Information:
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 4, Issue 5; Conference: Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society, Denver, CO (United States), 11-15 Nov 1996; Other Information: PBD: May 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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