Performance Test of CW 300?GHz Gyrotron FU CW I

A 300 GHz CW gyrotron FU CW I has been developed and installed in the Research Center for Development of Far-Infrared Region, University of Fukui as a power source of a high frequency material processing system. Its performance was tested and the maximum power of 1.75 kW / CW has been attained at the beam voltage of 15 kV and the beam current of 1A. The maximum window power efficiency of 15.5% has been obtained at the cathode voltage slightly lower than 15 kV. This gyrotron is designed to deliver a Gaussian beam after mode conversion from the oscillation mode TE_22,8 in the cavity with a complex of an internal radiator and beam shaping mirrors. The detailed measurement with an infrared camera has confirmed that a Gaussian beam is radiated when the magnetic field strength B _c at the cavity is adjusted at a proper value. However, within a range of B _c , the output power is emerged into multiple directions, which suggests simultaneous oscillation of competing cavity modes.     

Parasitic oscillation in and suppression of a gyrotron backwardwave mode in a low-Q 8 GHz gyrotron

The parasitic oscillation of the TE°₂₁ gyrotron backward-wave (gyro BW) mode is observed in a low-Q, 8 GHz TE°₀₁₁, gyrotron. At low power (P_BW<5 kW), the oscillation of the gyro BW mode, simultaneously with the gyrotron mode, results in a maximum TE°₀₁₁, mode efficiency of less than 0.25. The parasitic oscillation is suppressed by operating the gyrotron with a negative magnetic field gradient along the electron beam, which allows the maximum efficiency to reach 0.40 and the output power to be multiplied by a factor varying from 1.4 to 1.7. The optimum efficiency curve of the TE°₀₁₁ mode indicates that the low-Q cavity behaves as a much higher Q_diff cavity. Excessive values of magnetic field gradient and α favor the TE°₀₁₂ , longitudinal mode, which oscillates in place of the TE°₀₁₁ mode and limits its maximum output power. This competitive process is responsible for the high-Q-like behavior of the optimum efficiency curve     

INFLUENCE OF MAGNETIC FIELD INHOMOGENEITY ON OPERATION OF THE THz GYROTRON WITH A PULSE MAGNET

Influence of magnetic field tapering on operation of a gyrotron working in the TE _4,12 mode at the second harmonic frequency 1013.67 GHz is investigated. It is found that the existing inhomogeneity of the magnetic field of the order of 0.25%–0.50% in the cavity allows one to achieve higher efficiencies. It improves also mode competition scenario by suppressing oscillations of the two parasitic TE _3,6⁺ and TE _5,5⁻ modes at the fundamental frequencies 513.35 GHz and 503.64 GHz, respectively.     

Design of a 35 GHz gyrotron

The conceptual design of a 35 GHz gyrotron has been developed consistently with the complex formulation of the electric field longitudinal distribution in the resonant cavity. Some models of magnetron injection guns able to produce laminar beams have been investigated leading to the design of an electron gun capable of generating a current of 5 A with a perpendicular velocity dispersion of 0.5%. The device includes three magnetic systems producting flat axial magnetic induction profiles of 1.05 kG, 13.2 kG and 0.65 kG in the cathode, cavity and collector regions, respectively. The gyrotron has been designed for pulsed operation in the TE₀₂₁ mode. Under the soft self-excitation condition, the maximum attainable efficiency is 40% with an output power of 100 kW. An analysis of the collector thermal behaviour has been carried out as well as a study of the thermophysical properties of the alumina window to be used.     

A 35-GHz low-voltage third-harmonic gyrotron with a permanent magnet system

A systematic theoretical and experimental study on a 35-GHz 45-kV third-harmonic gyrotron with a permanent magnet system is presented in this paper. A complex cavity with gradual transition and a diode magnetron injection gun (MIG) are employed in the gyrotron. A self-consistent field nonlinear theoretical investigation and numerical simulation for electron beam interaction with RF fields are given. The diode MIG is simulated numerically utilizing our code in detail. The permanent magnet system provided the maximum axial magnetic field of about 4.5 kG in the cavity region of the gyrotron. The Ka band third-harmonic complex cavity gyrotron with a permanent magnet system has been designed, constructed, and tested. A pulse output power of 147.3 kW was obtained at a beam voltage of 45 kV with beam current of 32.2 A, corresponding to an efficiency of 10.2%.     

8mm波段三次谐波复合腔回旋管的非线性分析

利用含电流的传输线方程,在考虑了诸多实际因素影响的情况下,对三次谐波渐变复合腔回旋管进行了自洽非线性模拟,计算了H₅₁₁-H₅₂₁模式下三次谐波多模注波互作用,分析了电子注的厚度、速度零散、速度比α值及磁场波动对多模注波互作用的影响 关键词： 回旋管 复合腔 多模注波互作用 速度零散 速度比α     

Mode competition, suppression, and efficiency enhancement in overmoded gyrotron oscillators

Gyrotron oscillators are of great interest as sources of high power mm wave radiation for electron cyclotron resonance heating and current drive in magnetic fusion research devices. Gyrotrons capable of efficiently generating cw power 1 megawatt will be required in future magnetic fusion studies. However, as gyrotron power approaches the megawatt level, a very large, overmoded cavity must be employed in order to keep ohmic power losses in the cavity at an acceptable level, and the problem of mode overpopulation becomes severe. Also, it becomes increasingly important to optimize gyrotron efficiency for a number of important reasons including minimizing the problem of collecting the electron beam energy. In the present paper, a detailed experimental and theoretical study of mode competition and mode locking in an overmoded gyrotron is presented. Efficiency enhancement (to 60%) and high peak power (430 kW) were achieved in the TE_2,4,1 mode using magnetostatic profiling in the cavity. With selective mode suppression, peak power of 475 kW was generated in the TE_0,4,1 mode.This work was performed at the Naval Research Laboratory. Some of the authors have affiliations with other institutions, as indicated:     

Long Pulse Operation of the THz Gyrotron with a Pulse Magnet

Long pulse operation up to 1 msec of a high frequency gyrotron with a pulse magnet has been successfully carried out in a frequency range including 1 THz. In the experiments, the timing of an electron beam pulse injection is adjusted at the top of the magnetic field pulse, where the variation of field intensity is negligible. The operation cavity modes seem to be TE_{1, 12} and TE_4,12 at the second harmonics. The corresponding frequencies are 903 GHz and 1,013 GHz, respectively. Additionally several features of radiation measurement results of the gyrotron are described and brief considerations are presented.     

波瓣波导谐振腔太赫兹回旋管的研究

以电子回旋脉塞非线性理论为基础, 结合三维电磁仿真软件, 通过导入高频场数值解替代理论解析的方法, 对波瓣波导谐振腔高次谐波太赫兹回旋管进行了理论和模拟研究. 给出了该类回旋管的起振电流、耦合系数以及注波互作用效率等重要参数, 并在此基础上设计了一只工作频率为0.4 THz, 工作模式TE₃₃模三次谐波波瓣波导谐振腔回旋管, 其电子注参数为1.0 A, 40.5 kV, 横纵速度比1.5,互作用区引导磁场为5.09 T, 输出功率达到3.3 kW.     

Nonstationary Behavior of a Gyrotron in the Presence of Reflections

Nonstationary behavior of a gyrotron in the presence of reflections is investigated by means of our time-dependent self-consistent code. It is shown that the traditionally accepted scenario of the transition from the single-frequency stationary operation regime to the chaotic nonstationary regime due to an increase in the magnitude of the reflection coefficient is not correct if a realistic non-fixed field profile is used in the simulations. In this case, the increase of the reflection coefficient above a certain threshold value (R 0.4) leads to an excitation of a number of modes of the mismatched gyrotron cavity. Then the gyrotron shows a very complicated periodic or quasiperiodic behavior. For higher reflection coefficients (R 0.85), the competition between the modes of the mismatched cavity leads to the suppression of the main mode by another one operating at higher frequency. The influence of the distance to the reflecting load on the gyrotron behavior is also demonstrated.     

THE FIRST EXPERIMENT OF A THz GYROTRON WITH A PULSE MAGNET

A THz gyrotron with a pulse magnet has been designed, constructed and operated in FIR FU. It is developed as one of high frequency gyrotrons included in Gyrotron FU Series. The gyrotron has already achieved the first experimental result for high frequency operations whose radiation frequency exceeds 1 THz. In this paper, the design detail and the operation test results for sub-terahertz to terahertz range are described. The second harmonic operation is confirmed experimentally at the expected frequency of 1.005 THz due to TE_6,11 cavity mode at the magnetic field intensity of 19.0 T.     

Operation of a 32 GHz gyrotron

The design and operation of a 32 GHz pulsed gyrotron are reported. The device is step-tuned between the TE_1,2 (24.16 GHz) and TE_0,2 (31.78 GHz) modes with cathode voltages ranging from 30 to 40kV and beam current up to 5.0A. Experimental frequencies are in close agreement with the self-consistent calculated values and in the TE_2,2 resonator mode an output peak power of 6kW corresponding to an 18% efficiency was measured by using a fast response calorimeter with a thermal sensitivity of 0.1°C/Wmin.     

3 mm波段二次谐波渐变复合腔回旋管的非线性模拟

 利用含电流的传输线方程,并在考虑多模注-波互作用及多模耦合的情况下,利用自主开发的多模高次谐波渐变结构复合腔回旋管的注-波互作用数值模拟软件,对3 mm波段二次谐波渐变复合腔回旋管进行了自洽非线性模拟,分析了H₀₂-H₀₃模式对下磁场系数、电流、电子注速度比对注-波互作用效率的影响。计算结果表明,在合适的腔体结构尺寸下,以及合适的磁场系数、电流、速度比下,注-波互作用效率可达27％。     

Nonparaxial magnetron injection gun for a high-power pulsed submillimeter-wave gyrotron

We determine distinctive features of the systems forming helical electron beams (HEBs) for high-power pulsed gyrotrons operated in the submillimeter-wave range. It is shown that they are characterized by a nonparaxial magnetic field in the emitter region, short distances between the cathode and the cavity, and the necessity of supplementing the magnetic system with a cathode coil placed behind the emitter. In a diode-type magnetron injection gun, which forms a boundary beam with a power of up to 4 MW, one can obtain the HEB parameters which are acceptable for the gyrotron operation. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 164–171, February 2009.     

Numerical simulation of mode interaction in 170 GHz/1 MW gyrotrons for iter

The paper presents an advanced method for and results of calculating main parameters of CW 170 GHz/1 MW gyrotrons operating at the TE_28.7 and TE_31.8 modes for ITER. Parameters are optimized to achieve maximum efficiency of the gyrotron with an acceptable Ohmic load on the cavity. Numerical modeling of starting up a gyrotron with an optimized cavity and processes of mode interaction are discussed.     

Network-theoretical model of the gyrotron oscillator part I: Empty cavity oscillation modes

A network-theoretical model of the gyrotron has been elaborated which is both conspicious and rigorous. The problem of self-consistently representing the field in the presence of the electron beam is attacked by expansion into the empty structure oscillation modes. In this first part, a method is presented to determine the empty gyrotron cavity oscillation modes, i.e. theQ factors, resonance frequencies, and field distributions in axisymmetric, but otherwise quite general cavities. It is based on the field representation in terms of local normal waveguide modes. Matrix equations in these modes for different type of cavity sections (building blocks) are formulated. Along with the open resonator boundary conditions, these equations form a nonstandard eigenvalue problem; the eigenvalues are the complex eigenfrequencies, the eigenvectors correspond to the field distributions. By way of example, the method is applied to a simple and a complex cavity.     

回旋管光子带隙谐振腔冷腔电磁模式分析

利用二维三角格子金属光子带隙谐振腔代替回旋管的传统柱形谐振腔,并对腔体进行了TE波模式的计算与分析.综合考虑腔体内外的结构特征,给出了光子带隙谐振腔冷腔模式理论的研究方法,发现腔内存在单模工作的可能与条件以及非角对称情况下的电磁模式分布特征.研究结果表明,利用光子带隙谐振腔代替回旋管的传统腔体,可使回旋管在不受腔体横向尺度限制的条件下实现单模工作.这对于提高回旋管的功率容量、有效实现高次单模与高次回旋谐波耦合条件下的注-波互作用、降低工作磁场并从物理上根本改变回旋管的工作状态提供了理论依据. 关键词： 回旋管 金属光子带隙 谐振腔     

A new approach for a multistage depressed collector for gyrotrons

A feasibility study for a two-stage depressed gyrotron collector has been performed. A new approach for an adiabatic magnetic decompression of the hollow electron beam has been used. It permits control of the radius of the constant magnetic flux surface, which determines the radial extension of the electron beam. Independent of the value of the magnetic field around the beam. For this purpose, either solenoidal coils or a ferromagnetic insert can be placed inside the hollow electron beam. Thus, the radial dimensions of a multistage depressed collector of a high-power high-frequency gyrotron can be kept within limits given by technological constraints. The energy sorting of the electron beam is improved by using electrodes inside the hollow electron beam for controlling the potential distribution. The additional control electrodes make it possible to eliminate almost all of the effect of secondary electrons on the operation of the collector. In order to demonstrate the proposed approach, a compact two-stage depressed collector has been designed for a 1.5-MW coaxial cavity gyrotron operating at 165 GHz in the transverse electric (TE)_31,17 mode, which is under development at FZK, Karlsruhe, Germany. Including the effect due to secondary electrons, a collector efficiency of 73% has been calculated with an average and peak heat dissipation density of about 240 W/cm² and 500 W/cm², respectively. This results in an increase of the output gyrotron efficiency from 36.5% to 62.6% when internal radio frequency (RF)-losses inside the gyrotron tube of 15% are taken into account     

Numerical design of 120 GHz, 1 MW gyrotron interaction cavity

The design and the numerical simulation of the interaction cavity for 120 GHz, 1 MW gyrotron is presented. The optimizations of the cavity parameters are carried out by using the Particle-in-Cell, 3D-electromagnetic simulation code MAGIC. The co-rotating TE_22,6 mode is selected by using the in-house developed code GCOMS. The cold cavity and the beam–wave interaction analyses are carried out to analyze the eigenmode, eigenfrequency and the output power performance. The output power more than 1 MW is achieved at the magnetic field of 4.82 T. The sensitivity analyses of the output power and the frequency with respect to the various interaction cavity parameters are also performed.     

Self-Consistent Effects on the Starting Current of Gyrotron Oscillators

Self-consistent effects on the starting current of gyrotron oscillators are examined. Field profiles in the open cavity are shown to be sensitive to the interaction dynamics. This can either significantly raise or lower the oscillation threshold, particularly for the low-Q modes. The transition from resonant-mode oscillations at the low magnetic field to backward-wave oscillations at the high magnetic field is demonstrated.