Ion storage at eV energies in an octopole ring

To store ions for times up to several seconds with energies in the 10 eV/amu range a tabletop storage ring with a circumference of about 1 m will be constructed. The ions will be confined and guided by RF-multipoles. The first objective is the production of pure ground state beams of (multiply charged) ions. This will allow for elucidating the unknown rule of metastable ions in electron capture studies, which will be performed in a crossed beam experiment after extraction of the ion beam from the storage ring. In order to test the technique of ion storage by means of RF-multipoles a linear RF-octopole beam guide has been constructed. First results of highly charged ion injection and subsequent electron capture studies in the RF-octopole beam guide are presented for C⁴⁺ ions.     

Prebunched high-harmonic gyrotron

A scheme for harmonic wave generation using a prebunched electron beam has been demonstrated. The prebunched electron beam has been used to further increase the efficiency of the authors' axis-encircling high-harmonic gyrotron. The proof-of-principle experiment was performed at the third harmonic with a TE₃₁₂ mode at 27.7 GHz. The conversion power of 6.7 kW was significantly greater than that used in the nonprebunched experiment. Also, mode competition was effectively suppressed. As expected, the unsaturated output power is proportional to the square of the electron beam current and the start of oscillation current is essentially zero. A linear theory, derived by taking into account the spread of the guiding center and the spread of the axial velocity, gives good agreement with the experimental results     

新型金属丝靶电子源实验研究

电子束在基础科学研究、工农业生产和医疗领域发挥了重要作用。提出了一种新型的电子源技术方案:高功率激光脉冲轰击金属丝靶,可以产生大量能量在百keV量级的热电子,一部分热电子在丝靶表面自生电磁场的作用下沿着丝靶运动,丝靶后方可以获得指向性良好的电子束。实验上成功在金、钨和铜丝靶后方获得了电子束团,测量了束团束斑、电荷量和能谱。铜丝靶单发实验收集到的电子束团总电荷量可达3 nC,能量分布在0～240 keV区间内,能谱在100 keV附近呈现峰值。提出了微波压缩方案,设计了2腔微波聚束腔,利用ASTRA对微波腔压缩过程进行了模拟计算。结果显示,可以将电荷量1 nC、长度55 ps的束团压缩至27 ps,满足后续微波加速器对电子源的要求。     

Fast electrons generation by RF and random fields near the antenna I. One dimensional model and regular fields

Test particle motion and acceleration has been explored in strong radio frequency (RF) fields, for which quasilinear ponderomotive force approximation is not valid. By nonlinear acceleration in spatially varying wave amplitude of RF travelling wave, electrons may be accelerated to time averaged velocities significantly larger than the RF wave phase velocity, and than the boundary plasma thermal velocity, in RF fields of several Volts per centimeter at wave frequency of 7 MHz. It is also demonstrated that even weak spatial gradients, much weaker than those expected in experiments, of the RF wave field amplitude, have significant consequences for the particle motion. Estimates are presented of the total energy transferred from the near antenna RF field to the plasma due to the nonlinear electron acceleration effects.     

Dielectric-loaded wideband gyro-TWT

The bandwidth of a gyro-TWT (traveling-wave tube) can be widened by employing a dielectric-loaded waveguide to reduce the circuit's dispersion. Fast wave interaction allows the requirements on the beam's quality to be relaxed compared with slow wave interaction. A low-α (≡ν_⊥/ν_z) electron beam is chosen to avoid the absolute instability and minimize the possibility of dielectric charging. This device is investigated using a self-consistent single-mode, large-signal simulation based on a slow time scale formulation. Simulation results show that a constant drive bandwidth of 20% can be achieved for a 100 kV, 5 A electron beam with a velocity ratio of α=0.59 and an axial velocity spread of 2.0%. The growth rate is relatively low because of the low α of the electron beam. The design of a proof-of-principle experiment is described. The tube is expected to deliver a power of 80 kW from 9 to 11 GHz with 15% efficiency and a saturated gain of 30 dB. The performance of a single-anode magnetron injection gun designed to produce the required high-quality electron beam has been studied through simulation     

等离子体对相对论返波管工作影响的粒子模拟

金属高频结构的射频击穿是引起功率下降和脉冲缩短的重要原因,是限制高功率微波(HPM)向更高功率、更长脉冲发展的重要因素。射频击穿的物理过程极其复杂,并且开展射频击穿研究对实验条件等要求高,因此粒子模拟是研究射频击穿的重要手段。通过在慢波结构表面设置爆炸发射电子和离子的方式模拟等离子体对一个X波段的相对论返波振荡器(RBWO)和一个Ka波段的RBWO工作的影响。粒子模拟结果表明,对于分段式慢波结构,后段慢波结构产生等离子体会对电子束的调制造成影响,进而影响器件正常工作,引起微波功率下降。当等离子体由质量较轻的正离子和电子组成时,会对束波作用造成更大的影响,引起较大的输出功率下降。相同密度的射频击穿等离子体对Ka波段RBWO工作的影响大于对X波段RBWO的影响。     

Physics design of a 10 MeV, 6 kW travelling wave electron linac for industrial applications

We present the physics design of a 10 MeV, 6 kW S-band (2856 MHz) electron linear accelerator (linac), which has been recently built and successfully operated at Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore. The accelerating structure is a 2π/3 mode constant impedance travelling wave structure, which comprises travelling wave buncher cells, followed by regular accelerating cells. The structure is designed to accelerate 50 keV electron beam from the electron gun to 10 MeV. This paper describes the details of electromagnetic design simulations to fix the mechanical dimensions and tolerances, as well as heat loss calculations in the structure. Results of design simulations have been compared with those obtained using approximate analytical formulae. The beam dynamics simulation with space charge is performed and the required magnetic field profile for keeping the beam focussed in the linac has been evaluated and discussed. An important feature of a travelling wave linac (in contrast with standing wave linac) is that it accepts the RF power over a band of frequencies. Three-dimensional transient simulations of the accelerating structure along with the input and output couplers have been performed using the software CST-MWS to explicitly demonstrate this feature.     

Development of a 2 MW relativistic backward wave oscillator

In this paper, a high power relativistic backward wave oscillator (BWO) experiment is reported. A 230 keV, 2 kA, 150 ns relativistic electron beam is generated using a Marx generator. The beam is then injected into a hollow rippled wall metallic cylindrical tube that forms a slow wave structure. The beam is guided using an axial pulsed magnetic field having a peak value 1 T and duration 1 ms. The field is generated by the discharge of a capacitor bank into a solenoidal coil. A synchronization circuit ensures the generation of the electron beam at the instant when the axial magnetic field attains its peak value. The beam interacts with the SWS modes and generates microwaves due to Cherenkov interaction. Estimated power of 2 MW in TM₀₁ mode is observed.      

Coaxial cavity gyrotron with dual RF beam output

A 140-GHz, 1.5-MW, TE_28,16-coaxial cavity gyrotron with a dual RF beam output has been designed, built, and tested. For the first time, the generated RF power has been split into two parts and coupled out through two RF output windows in order to reduce the power loading in the windows. The quasioptical output system is based on a two-step mode conversion scheme. First, the cavity mode TE_-28,16 is converted into its degenerate whispering gallery mode TE_+76,2 using a rippled-wall mode converter. Then, this mode is transformed into two TEM₀₀ output wave beams. A maximum rf output power of about 950 kW with an output efficiency of 20% has been measured. According to numerical calculations, an rf power above 1.5 MW is expected to be generated in the cavity. Even if all losses are taken into account, a discrepancy between experiment and calculations remains. The power deficit seems to be partly caused by the influence of the stray radiation captured inside the tube. However, the two main reasons are probably an incomplete mode conversion from TE_-28,16 to TE_+76,2 and a large energy spread of the electron beam due to trapped electrons. An increased amount of captured stray radiation resulted in a reduced stability of operation. A single-stage depressed collector was used successfully, increasing the RF output efficiency from 20% to 29%     

有限引导磁场下相对论环形电子注色散特性的研究

采用等效媒质处理方法来研究有限引导磁场下沿纵向运动的相对论环形电子注.首先建立运动坐标系以电子注纵向速度匀速运动,在运动坐标系中电子注可以被考虑成静止的磁化等离子体,再通过四维空间的洛伦兹变换得到电子注在静止的实验室坐标系下可以被等效为双各向异性媒质,其不仅具有张量形式的电导率和磁导率,还具有手征特性.在此基础上同时考虑了由于电子注表面波动所引起的表面电流密度.采用该方法研究了有限引导磁场下圆柱波导中沿纵向运动的相对论环形电子注,推导出该模型的色散方程,并进行了数值计算.计算结果表明该研究方法能够得到更准 关键词： 相对论环形电子注 磁化等离子体 色散特性     

Nonlinear gain computation for the sheet beam crossed-fieldamplifier

When the RF amplitude in a crossed field device is much smaller than the external DC voltage, the energy exchange between an electron and the wave is given by the change in the potential energy of the electron guiding center. The shift of the beam center of charge follows the space bunching into “spokes” caused by the RF-induced drift. A nonlinear estimate for the gain is derived and applied to the linear format crossed-field amplifier fed by a continuous sheet beam. The adiabatic approximation for the guiding center trajectories in the low gain regime determines the fraction of trapped/streaming particles and the energy exchange for each group. The radiation gain equals the change in the electron potential energy resulting from the shift in the beam center of charge across the anode-cathode voltage. The drift kinetic energy is approximately conserved, opposed to other microwave devices converting kinetic energy into radiation. The theory accounts for the symmetry of the response curve relative to the frequency detuning ω-ω₀, and the flat top near resonance. The analytic predictions agree with the experimental measurements of the gain versus frequency response     

微波谐振腔中电子与微波作用的非稳态过程研究

 在微波腔中微波场影响电子的运动，同时电子束作为电流源也产生辐射，影响微波场，这种相互作用包含线性和非线性过程。根据Maxwell理论，微波腔中的实际微波场可以按微波腔的模式展开，而且不同模式与电子束之间的相互作用不同。将电子束作为激励源，根据Maxwell方程和电子受到的洛伦兹力，建立不同模式在电子束作用下的激励方程和电子束电子在不同模式作用下的运动方程（即微波谐振腔中电子束与微波场相互作用的自洽方程组），并由此进一步分析一维情况下单间隙微波腔中微波建场、辐射场呈指数增长和饱和等非稳态作用过程，该过程涉及到电子束与微波作用的线性和非线性过程。     

回旋速调管放大器注-波互作用分析

 给出了自洽非线性大信号理论分析方法,在理论分析和高频计算的基础上,建立了回旋速调管放大器注-波互作用计算模型,对其进行数值计算。研究多种参量对放大器输出功率、增益、效率等的影响,通过优化得到了中心频率34 GHz的四腔回旋速调管放大器设计方案。粒子模拟表明：在工作电压65 kV,注电流8 A,电子注横向与纵向速度比为1.5时,输出功率230 kW,带宽230 MHz,电子效率45%,饱和增益33 dB。     

W波段二次谐波突变复合腔回旋管数值模拟

 通过对二次谐波低电压突变结构复合腔回旋管中谐振腔结构、模式竞争以及电子注-波互作用的研究,分析了高频结构特性、寄生模式的抑制和工作参数优化等问题。给出了3 mm 二次谐波低损耗TE₀₂/TE₀₃模式回旋管的模拟设计结果。计算采用了坡度磁场,互作用效率得到显著提高。PIC粒子模拟结果表明:在电子注电压25 kV、电流4 A、纵横速度比1.6、工作磁场1.72 T时,回旋管可获得37 kW 的输出功率,横向运动能量转换效率高达51%,器件效率为37%。     

Bunch length measurement using a traveling wave RF deflector

RF deflectors can be used for bunch length measurement with high resolution. This paper describes a completed S-band traveling wave RF deflector and the bunch length measurement of the electron beam produced by the photocathode RF gun of the Shanghai DUV-FEL facility. This is the first time that such a transverse RF deflector has been developed and used to measure the bunch length of picosecond order in China. The deflector's VSWR is 1.06, the whole attenuation 0.5 dB, and the bandwidth 4.77 MHz for VSWR less than 1.1. With a laser pulse width of 8.5 ps, beam energy of 4.2 MeV, and bunch charge of 0.64 nC, the bunch lengths for different RF input power into the deflector were measured, and an averaged rms bunch length of 5.25 ps was obtained. A YAG crystal is used as a screen downstream of the deflector, with the calibrated value of 1 pix = 136 μm.     

C波段磁绝缘线振荡器的数值模拟

 利用2维半全电磁PIC程序进行数值模拟，设计了一种C波段磁绝缘线振荡器。该振荡器在阴极电子发射起点加圆环,控制此处电子束的发射密度，来减少电子能量的损耗，改善束-波互作用；逐渐加大慢波结构的后两个叶片的内半径，增大微波群速度，便于谐振腔中的能量输出，提高微波输出效率；采用两个扼流片有效地阻止了微波功率向二极管区泄漏，相应减小了器件的尺寸。当外加电压为430 kV、束流46 kA时，饱和后输出微波平均功率2 GW，频率3.51 GHz，功率转换效率10%。     

Self-consistent field theory and calculation for gyromonotron

A self consistent field large signal theory of gyromonotron is studied in this paper. The RF field profile function satisfies a wave equation. The field is determined by cavity geometry and AC electron beam current. The RF field not only satisfies the boundary conditions at the ends of the cavity but also obeys conservation of energy for steady state interaction between electron beam and field. The parameters of a particular gyrotron are calculated numerically using present theory. Effect of some factors on gyrotron characteristic is discussed. Comparison is made between the results of the self consistent field calculations with and without conservation of energy.     

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     

Coaxial Relativistic Backward Wave Oscillator and Coaxial Master Oscillator-Power Amplifier

A two and one half dimensional particle-in-cell code MAGIC has been used to investigate the nonlinear beam-wave interaction in a coaxial relativistic backward wave oscillator(RBWO) and optimize the dependence of the output power on electron beam nature parameter, slow wave structure geometry and magnetic guide field. The optimum conditions for the coaxial RBWO were obtained. The simulation results show: the coaxial RBWO can generate 3.2GW peak output power at 10.2GHz in the TM₀₂ made when an annular electron beam of 20KA is accelerated across a diode potential of 600KV and guided through a section of uniform coaxial corrugated waveguide by an axial magnetic field of 25KG, the peak efficiency is about 27% . A novel coaxial master oscillator–power amplifier was presented in this paper.     

Stimulated Raman scattering of gaussian laser beam in relativistic plasma

This paper presents an investigation of Stimulated Raman Scattering of gaussian laser beam in relativistic Plasma. The pump beam interacts with a pre-excited electron plasma wave and thereby generate a back-scattered wave. Due to intense laser beam, electron oscillatory velocity becomes comparable to the velocity of light, which modifies the background plasma density profile in a direction transverse to pump beam axis. The relativistic non-linearity due to increase in mass of the electrons effects the incident laser beam, electron plasma wave and back-scattered beam. We have set up the non-linear differential equations for the beam width parameters of the main beam, electron plasma wave, back-scattered wave and derived SRS back-reflectivity by taking full non-linear part of the dielectric constant of relativistic plasma with the help of moment theory approach. It is observed from the analysis that self-focusing of the pump beam greatly affects the SRS reflectivity, which plays a significant role in laser induced fusion.