准矩形截面强流相对论带状电子束的传输

提出利用准矩形截面带状电子束传输强电流.相对于目前广泛采用的椭圆形截面带状电子束,在大横纵比,即电子束的宽度(横向)远大于厚度(纵向)的情况下,其厚度沿横向更加均匀,利用冷阴极爆炸发射容易产生.该电子束利于高功率微波发生器中腔体模式的控制和束波作用效率的提高,如果利用模块化的结构还可使阴极及聚焦磁铁在宽度上的扩展更加容易.首先给出了准矩形截面带状电子束空间电荷场的典型分布,然后根据该分布和束匹配的方法对相互独立的周期会切磁铁和边聚焦磁铁分别进行了设计.其中边聚焦磁铁的磁化方向与以往的纵向不同,为横向磁化,其激励的边聚焦磁场在电子束宽边的边缘附近的梯度更大,有利于横向的束匹配.最后根据理论分析的结果进行了粒子模拟.结果表明,300keV,3kA的准矩形截面强流相对论带状电子束可以在0.163T的周期会切磁场和0.064T的横向磁化边聚焦磁场中稳定传输,电流传输效率大于98%.     

利用偏置磁极周期会切磁铁产生边聚焦场

 利用理论分析和数值计算的方法,研究了偏置磁极周期会切磁铁产生的、可用于带状电子束宽边聚焦的边聚焦场。结果表明:增加偏置长度,减小电子束通道宽度,增大磁极轴向长度可以在基本不改变边聚焦场在x方向上分布特性的前提下提高幅值;增大电子束通道的高度,增大磁极厚度均可以减小边聚焦场在x方向上分布曲线的曲率,但同时其幅值也会降低,该降低可利用前述方法予以补偿。在对带状电子束宽边聚焦进行束匹配时,可以先进行曲率匹配,再进行幅值匹配。在进行参数选择时,应合理选择束通道高度和磁极厚度的取值,以避免束通道内的边聚焦场在x方向上的分布出现曲率反向。     

周期会切磁场聚焦强流相对论带状电子束的理论分析和粒子模拟

对低幅值、短周期、有偏置磁极的周期会切磁场中300 keV,3 kA带状电子束的传输进行了理论分析和粒子模拟。给出了将波导宽度考虑在内的轴向均匀带状电子束的空间电荷场和作用在有限厚度的带状电子束的短边和宽边上的聚焦力的表达式,并利用束匹配的方法得到了磁场的幅值和周期,以及电子束通道的宽度和高度等参数。最后根据理论计算的结果进行了3维粒子模拟验证,结果表明:束宽边上聚焦良好,而在短边上带状电子束的轴向有限长效应使得聚焦力与散焦力沿轴向不能完全匹配,在束包络上产生了Betatron振荡,但在300 mm的距离上传输效率仍能达到98%以上,说明有偏置磁极的周期会切磁场聚焦强流带状电子束在理论上是可行的。     

椭圆带状电子束聚焦方式

分析了椭圆带状电子束空间电荷场分布,采用3维粒子模拟软件观察椭圆带状电子束的传输不稳定性。分别对采用周期凸起磁场结构和偏置周期凸起磁场结构聚焦椭圆电子束进行理论分析,并利用粒子模拟软件对聚焦效果进行仿真。通过对比研究发现:偏置型周期凸起磁场结构更适合用于抑制椭圆截面带状电子束的传输不稳定性。     

带状束高功率微波源宽通带收集极

设计了一种适用于带状电子束高功率微波源的宽通带收集极,在有效吸收束-波相互作用后的带状电子束的同时,保证了带状电子束高功率微波源的工作模式——矩形波导TM11模式高效率地通过。研究结果表明:在13~27GHz范围内,功率传输效率大于95%,这一宽通带特性使得该类型的收集极与带状电子束高功率微波源能够更好配合,显著提高了微波源的模拟优化和实验调试效率;TM11模式微波的传输效率对收集极厚度和长度等参数不敏感;该类型收集极结构具有良好的散热能力,在不加外部水冷装置的条件下,仅靠空气自然对流冷却和辐射冷却,可以承受电流3kA、电压300kV、脉冲宽度30ns及重复频率50Hz带状电子束的连续冲击。     

强流电子束源阴极等离子体的粒子模拟

 模拟了强流电子束源阴极表面附近区域数密度约1014 cm-3的等离子体的膨胀过程,观察到等离子体膨胀速度约为1 cm/μs。通过观察不同时刻阴极附近电子和离子的相空间分布、数密度分布和轴向电场分布,分析了等离子体膨胀过程。结果表明:等离子体的产生使得阴极表面电场增强,进而增大阴极的电流发射密度,电流密度增加使得空间电荷效应增强,并使等离子体前沿处的电场减小,当等离子体前沿处的电场减小到零时等离子体向阳极膨胀。讨论了等离子体温度、离子质量、束流密度和离子产生率对等离子体膨胀速度的影响。结果表明:等离子体的膨胀速度随着等离子体温度升高而增大,随离子质量增大而减小,但膨胀速度不等于离子声速;等离子体产生率越小,等离子体膨胀速度越小。     

磁场对球头阴极二极管特性的影响

 采用全电磁PIC粒子模拟方法研究了磁场对球头阴极二极管物理特性的影响。结果表明外加磁场主要是通过对二极管束流轨迹的改变来影响二极管的物理特性。由于外加磁场将约束其产生电子束的发散，结果使其空间电荷限制电流减小，其值在无外加磁场并且自磁场可以忽略时的空间电荷限制电流值的0.5~1倍范围内。当外加磁场足够强时，束流轨迹主要受外加磁场控制，二极管产生的电子束既不箍缩也不发散。强外加磁场条件下的空间电荷限制电流近似为无外加磁场时的一半；在无外加磁场条件下，在阳极处的束流半径随二极管电压电流的增大而减小，空间电荷限制电流增强因子随束流半径的减小而减小，随二极管电压电流增大而减小。这一系列结果是在二极管电流小于其自箍缩临界电流条件下得到的。     

二极管间隙距离对场致发射过程中空间电荷效应的影响

在强电场条件下,由阴极通过场致发射产生的电子具有很强的空间电荷效应,因此真空二极管的空间电荷限制电流是设计高功率微波源等强流电子束器件时需要考虑的重要参数.场致发射电流密度只和阴极材料、阴极表面电场等有关,而空间电荷效应则会受二极管电压、间隙距离等因素的影响.为研究二极管间隙距离对场致发射过程中空间电荷效应的影响,建立了由场致发射阴极构成的一维平板真空二极管物理模型,利用第一性原理的粒子模拟方法,研究了二极管间隙距离和外加电压等参数变化时的阴极表面电场随时间的演变特性,得到了阴极表面稳态电场和二极管间隙距离之间的关系.结果表明,场致发射过程开始后,阴极表面电场先有个振荡过程,随后趋于稳定;在同一外加电场条件下,间隙距离越长,稳态电场的绝对值越小,且达到稳态所需的时间也越长;间隙距离越短,当阴极表面电场达到稳定状态时,二极管间隙区的电场分布变化越剧烈.     

强流相对论性电子束在低压中性气体中传输的研究

本文给出了强流相对论性电子束(IREB)在低压中性气体中传输特性的理论和实验研究结果。660kV,40kA,脉宽100ns的电子束注入充有H_2,N_2的漂移管,稳定的传输气压范围在(0.7-6.7)×10~2Pa间,传输效率可达80％以上;极低气压时(P≈13.3Pa)由于空间电荷效应,束电子被虚阴极阻滞并径向发散,不能有效传输;而较高气压时,束电子除受自身电磁场作用及库仑碰撞散射外,等离子体不稳定性使束流传输效率明显降低。用蒙特·卡洛法及数值解析法对电荷中和、电流中和过程进行了模拟计算并解释了实验结果。     

强流相对论性电子束在真空漂移管中的传输

本文给出了40kA,880kV,脉冲宽度为100ns的强流相对论性电子束(IREB)在无外加磁场的真空金属漂移管中传输特性的研究结果。实验证实了束流在传输过程中净电流倍增现象的存在以及L.S.Bogdankevich等人对空间电荷极限电流的理论估计。理论上解释了净电流倍增及其明显滞后、上升时间缩短和脉宽变窄等现象。     

Investigation of intense sheet electron beam transport using the macroscopic cold-fluid model and the single-particle orbit theory

The focusing and the stable transport of an intense elliptic sheet electron beam in a uniform magnetic field are investigated thoroughly by using the macroscopic cold-fluid model and the single-particle orbit theory.The results indicate that the envelopes and the tilted angles of the sheet electron beam obtained by the two theories are consistent.The single-particle orbit theory is more accurate due to its treatment of the space-charge fields in a rectangular drift tube.The macroscopic cold-fluid model describes the collective transport process in order to provide detailed information about the beam dynamics,such as beam shape,density,and velocity profile.The tilt of the elliptic sheet beam in a uniform magnetic field is carefully studied and demonstrated.The results presented in this paper provide two complete theories for systemically discussing the transport of the sheet beam and are useful for understanding and guiding the practical engineering design of electron optics systems in high power vacuum electronic devices.     

A high-power millimeter-wave sheet beam free-electron laseramplifier

The results of experiments with a short period (9.6 mm) wiggler sheet electron beam (1.0 mm×2.0 cm) millimeter-wave free electron laser (FEL) amplifier are presented. This FEL amplifier utilized a strong wiggler field for sheet beam confinement in the narrow beam dimension and an offset-pole side-focusing technique for the wide dimension beam confinement. The beam analysis herein includes finite emittance and space-charge effects. High-current beam propagation was achieved as a result of extensive analytical studies and experimental optimization. A design optimization resulted in a low sensitivity to structure errors and beam velocity spread, as well as a low required beam energy. A maximum gain of 24 dB was achieved with a 1-kW injected signal power at 86 GHz, a 450-kV beam voltage, 17-A beam current, 3.8-kG wiggler magnetic field, and a 74-period wiggler length. The maximum gain with a one-watt injected millimeter-wave power was observed to be over 30 dB. The lower gain at higher injection power level indicates that the device has approached saturation. The device was studied over a broad range or experimental parameters. The experimental results have a good agreement with expectations from a one-dimensional simulation code. The successful operation of this device has proven the feasibility of the original concept and demonstrated the advantages of the sheet beam FEL amplifier. The results of the studies will provide guidelines for the future development of sheet beam FELs and/or other kinds of sheet beam devices     

太赫兹波段Smith-Purcell辐射的介质加载光栅高频特性

提出了一种用于Smith-Purcell效应器件的介质加载光栅慢波结构,通过研究该结构的注-波互作用过程,推导出带电子注的色散方程,并数值求解出波的线性增长率.利用色散方程,结合电磁场传播的边界条件,推导出Smith-Purcell效应振荡器工作所需的起振电流.详细研究了高频结构长度、电子注主要参数和介质相对介电常数对起振电流的影响,并与普通金属光栅结构进行了比较.结果表明:保持其他参数不变时,高频结构长度越短,起振电流越大;保持高频结构参数不变时,起振电流随电子注厚度和注-栅距离的增大而增大,随电子注电压的增大而减小;与金属光栅相比,介质的引入提高了注-波互作用的增长率,有效减小了振荡器的起振电流.理论计算结果与软件CHIPIC的模拟结果比较符合.     

层流平衡相对论电子束束流特性的数值计算

通过对层流平衡相对论电子的运动微分方程组进行数值求解,得到正则角动量在pθ=0,pθ=const.和pθ∝r2三种情况下,束流的传输特性.针对pθ=0的相对论实心电子束,利用数值求解得到了与解析方法一致的结果,从而验证了数值方法的合理性;针对无法用解析方法求解的pθ=0环行电子束、pθ=const.和pθ∝r2的情况,利用数值方法得到了束流和空间极限电流关于波导、电子束结构和二极管电压等参数的变化规律及对轴向导引磁场的要求.计算结果表明:当相对论电子束以层流平衡态传输时,环行束较实心束具有更高的空间极限电流和更低的轴向导引磁场,且当阴极发射面与导引磁场的磁场线垂直时,维持电子束层流平衡所需的轴向导引磁场最低;电子束在有限磁场导引下以层流平衡态传输时,空间极限电流明显大于无限大磁场导引下一维近似的情况.利用数值方法对层流平衡相对论电子束进行理论研究,更全面地揭示了电子束在正则角动量满足不同条件时的束流特性,为设计新型结构的高功率微波器件提供理论参考.     

Field theory of a traveling wave tube amplifier with a tape helix

A self-consistent relativistic field theory for a helix traveling wave tube (TWT) is presented for a configuration in which a magnetized pencil beam propagates through a tape helix enclosed with a loss-free well. A linear analysis of the interaction is solved subject to the boundary conditions imposed by the beam, helix, and wall. The wave equation for the fields within the electron beam corresponds to the Appleton-Hartree magnetoionic wave modes that are of mixed electrostatic/electromagnetic polarization. Hence, the determinantal dispersion equation that is obtained implicitly includes beam space-charge effects without recourse to a heuristic model of the space-charge field. This dispersion equation includes azimuthal variations and all spatial harmonics of the tape helix. Solutions that correspond to both the extraordinary (X) and ordinary (O ) solutions for the Appleton-Hartree modes are found numerically     

Electron beam modeling and analyses of the electric field distribution and space charge effect

In electron beam technology, one of the critical focuses of research and development efforts is on improving the measurement of electron beam parameters. The parameters are closely related to the generation, emission, operation environment, and role of the electron beam and the corresponding medium. In this study, a field calculation method is proposed, and the electric field intensity distribution on the electron beam's cross-section is analyzed. The characteristics of beam diffusion caused by the space charge effect are investigated in simulation, and the obtained data are compared with the experiment. The simulation demonstrated that the cross-sectional electric field distribution is primarily affected by the electron beam current, current density distribution, and electron beam propagation speed.     

Dynamics of self-consistent planar axisymmetric motions of an electron beam in a magnetic field

The dynamics of self-consistent planar axisymmetric motions of a cylindrical electron beam is investigated analytically. The beam electrons move under the action of an unneutralized space-charge field against an immobile ion background or in a vacuum in the presence of a magnetic field. The electric field strength and the electron density and velocity are determined as functions of the distance traveled by the beam electrons.