A terahertz gyrotron with pulsed magnetic field

We present the results of first experiments with a small-size gyrotron on the basis of a pulsed solenoid with a magnetic field of about 40 T. The generation of microwave radiation in the frequency range from 0.9 to 1.02 THz is obtained. The pulse duration is about 40 µs for a kilowatt power level. The microwave pulse repetition rate is limited by the solenoid cooling capability and is about 1 pulse per minute, which is an order of magnitude higher than that in known foreign analogs.     

Microwave pulse shortening in plasma relativistic high-current microwave electronics

We describe mechanisms of microwave pulse shortening in radiation sources with the power of about 10⁸ W based on interaction between relativistic electron beams of nanosecond duration and preformed plasma. The shortening is mainly due to the electron return flow through the plasma, which leads to a multiple decrease in the linear gain of the microwave by the relativistic electron beam and in the reflection coefficient of the plasma wave that provides the generator feedback. The ways to eliminate the effect of microwave pulse shortening are proposed.     

Active Bragg Compressor of 3-cm Wavelength Microwave Pulses

We present the results of studies of the active compressor of 3-cm wavelength microwave pulses, which uses a high-Q storage Bragg resonator excited at the H₀₁ mode and new types of plasma switches. Phase variation during a compressed pulse and phase correlation of the input and compressed microwave pulses are studied both experimentally and theoretically. Using a single-channel compressor excited at the megawatt power level by the magnicon radiation with frequency 11.4 GHz, a power amplification factor equal to 9 was reached for an output-pulse duration of 40–50 ns and a peak power of up to 25 MW. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 51, No. 7, pp. 597–616, July 2008.     

PIN限幅器的高功率微波单脉冲效应研究

基于PIN限幅器的等效电路模型,构建了PIN限幅器HPM效应ADS等效电路仿真模型,利用HPM注入实验和等效电路仿真相结合的方法,研究了单个微波脉冲作用下PIN限幅器的响应规律,获取了HPM作用结束后限幅器限幅持续时间与注入脉冲功率、脉宽的对应关系,并对限幅器的限幅持续过程进行了分析。仿真与实验结果表明:PIN限幅器限幅持续时间随着微波脉冲功率和脉宽的增大而变大,实验和仿真结果趋势一致,该研究使用的ADS等效电路模型可以应用于PIN限幅器的高功率微波瞬态响应特性分析研究。     

Relativistic X-band BWO with 3-GW output power

Results from a study of a relativistic X-band backward-wave oscillator (RBWO) with 3-GW output microwave power are presented. The RBWO was driven by the high-current electron accelerator SINUS-7. The dependence of radiated microwave pulse duration on microwave power was obtained. Pulse shortening occurring at the higher power levels is probably attributable to explosive electron emission from the slow wave structure (SWS). An increase in the cross section of the electrodynamic structure seems to be a way to increase the microwave pulse duration. Experimental results from a moderately oversized X-band RBWO using a resonance reflector are described. This tube can be operated with a low external magnetic field     

空气和SF6气体击穿对微波传输的影响

通过喇叭有效口径渐变法进行了L波段、脉宽30 ns的高功率微波空气以及SF6气体击穿实验,给出了实验中得到的典型波形,分析了空气以及SF6气体击穿对微波传输的影响。实验表明:空气击穿产生等离子体对微波传输的影响主要表现为对微波功率的反射,使微波脉宽变窄,而SF6击穿则主要体现为对微波功率的吸收,使峰值功率降低。关键词: Abstract:Key words:     

带阻性负载细导线对电磁脉冲响应的有限差分算法

在原始的FDTD细线算法基础上,把带负载细导线模型分成导线、电阻和吸收三个部分,分别用不同的偏微分方程描述,使其可以处理两端带有纯电阻性负载细线电磁脉冲散射问题,进而得到电阻负载上消耗的总能量及对应的功率消耗。用该方法计算得到的结果与文献结果进行了比较,证明了该方法的有效性。最后用此方法对一种典型情况进行了计算,并对结果进行了分析。该方法是对FDTD方法中细线算法的补充和提高,经过修改也可以用于非阻性负载的情况。     

High-pulse-energy passively mode-locked Nd:YVO4 laser without spatial hole burning effect

We report on a high-pulse-energy 888 nm diode-pumped passively mode-locked TEM₀₀ Nd:YVO₄ oscillator without spatial hole burning (SHB) effect in active medium. At a pump power of 40 W, the oscillator produced pulse energy up to 270 nJ at a repetition rate of 50 MHz, corresponding to average power of 13.5W with 34% optical-to-optical efficiency. To the best of our knowledge, it is the highest pulse energy obtained at the same pump power. The pulse duration produced varied from 16 to 59 ps. By varying the pump power, we observed a pulse duration ranging from 52 to 59 ps while the time-bandwidth product remained 0.88, and the factors that affect the pulse duration were also discussed. Meanwhile, a novel method of adjusting output coupling (OC) was introduced, which can simplify the structure of laser.     

X波段GW级长脉冲高功率微波源的设计与实验

通过理论分析指出,单模相对论返波振荡器内的平均场强正比于其工作频率,工作在高频段难以实现长脉冲运行。采用电磁场仿真方法,比较了X波段单模和过模慢波结构的场分布特点,结果表明:增加过模比能有效减小慢波结构表面的射频场强,但由于场分布变化导致场强的减小与过模比的增加相比并不显著。利用过模比约为3的慢波结构设计了一种X波段长脉冲高功率微波源。实验中,在单次运行条件下,输出微波功率达到2 GW、脉宽80 ns;在20 Hz重复频率运行条件下,输出微波功率达到1.2 GW、脉宽100 ns。器件产生的微波频率为9.38 GHz,主模为TM01,效率约24%。微波窗口和慢波结构表面的射频击穿是目前实验中限制微波功率和脉宽增加的关键因素。     

HEM11模磁绝缘线振荡器的高频分析

作为小型化和紧凑型的高功率微波源,磁绝缘线振荡器(MILO)在过去十几年里得到了广泛的研究和发展.在大多数研究中,最低的对称模一直被当作器件的主模.然而,由于结构的对称性或者电子发射均匀度不理想等原因,很容易激励起非对称模式.计算了MILO同轴结构中同时包含对称模和非对称模的本征方程.在此基础上,通过对结构的优化设计,提出了一种HEM₁₁模工作的MILO,并开展了原理性实验.在二极管的电压为480kV,电流为39kA条件下得到了功率为1.2GW,脉冲宽度为40ns的微波输出,功率转换 关键词： 磁绝缘线振荡器 高频特性 11模')" href="#">HEM₁₁模 开放腔     

Pulse behaviour of a compact RF discharged CO2 slab laser

We present the measurements made on a medium power, 35 cm long, radio-frequency discharge CO₂ slab laser operated in a pulsed regime obtained by switching the RF discharge. In this way, pulses with peak power up to 480 W at pulse repetition frequencies in the range 1 to 10 kHz have been obtained. Pulse energy and average extracted power have been experimentally characterized with respect to the pulse repetition frequency and to the pulse duration, and the pulse shape and characteristic times have been measured. We also investigated the propagation properties of the beam emerging from our laser.     

On Transient Time Reduction of a 2.4 GHz Relativistic Traveling Wave Oscillator with a Hollow Slow Wave System

The decrease in the transient time in a relativistic microwave traveling wave oscillator, in which the interaction is carried out between the relativistic electron beam and the fundamental harmonic of the forward-traveling electromagnetic wave slowed down to the speed of light in the hollow slow wave system system, has been numerically and experimentally demonstrated. It is shown that in this mode a high beam-to-wave coupling impedance up to ≈10 Ω is achieved, which ensures reduction of the transient time. In the experiment, a microwave peak power of 210 ± 30 MW at a frequency of 2.45 GHz in a guiding magnetic field of 0.16 T was obtained. The efficiency of the oscillator to convert the power of the electron beam into microwave power was 17 ± 3%. At the beam current pulse duration of about 50 ns the microwave pulse duration was about 20 ns and the transient time was about 22 ns.

     

Numerical Simulation of a TM<Subscript>01</Subscript>–TE<Subscript>11</Subscript> Waveguide Mode Converter by the FDTD Method

We consider the problem of propagation of a microwave pulse with given transverse structure through a waveguide converter of the circular-waveguide modes from TM₀₁ to TE₁₁ The FDTD method is used for numerical study of the mode composition of the pulse at the converter output as a function of its duration.The frequency characteristic of the converter is obtained from the Fourier response to a wide-spectrum pulse.__________Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 207–218, March 2005.     

常用微波衰减器脉冲功率容量测试

提出了一种微波衰减器脉冲功率容量的测试方法,该方法可概括为利用定向耦合器组测试比对法,测试系统主要由微波源、定向耦合器组、衰减器、检波器及示波器等器件及设备组成。选取了广泛应用于高功率微波测试系统的波导衰减器及同轴衰减器进行了功率容量测试。初步测试结果表明:在X波段,对于μs量级脉冲宽度的单脉冲,衰减材料为羟基铁的BJ-100矩形波导式衰减器的脉冲功率容量可达50 kW,厚膜电阻为衰减材料的N型接头的同轴式衰减器的功率容量可达10 kW以上。     

Production of ultra-short high-power microwave pulses in Čerenkov backward-wave systems (Review)

The article presents a review of works (mainly, of experimental ones) on production of subgigawatt and gigawatt microwave pulses of extremely short duration (5–7 RF periods) using backward-wave systems fed with nanosecond and subnanosecond high-current electron beams produced by compact accelerators. Theoretical approaches to the generation process (which is essentially non-steady-state) are briefly summarized. Using the effect of spatial accumulation of energy in a short running microwave pulse allows production of pulses with peak power notably higher then the driving electron beam power. Compact microwave sources developed for operation in the Ka-band and X-band are described. Special attention is given to the issue of high pulse repetition frequency operation of the sources.     

HEM11 mode magnetically insulated transmission[2mm] line oscillator: simulation and experiment

A novel magnetically insulated transmission line oscillator (MILO) in which a modified HEM₁₁ mode is taken as its main interaction mode (HEM₁₁ mode MILO) is simulated and experimented in this paper. The excitation of the oscillation mode is made possible by carefully adjusting the arrangement of each resonant cavity in a two-dimensional slow wave structure. The special feature of such a device is that in the slow-wave-structure region, the interaction mode is HEM₁₁ mode which is a TM-like one that could interact with electron beams effectively; and in the coaxial output region, the microwave mode is TE₁₁ mode which has a favourable field density pattern to be directly radiated. Employing an electron beam of about 441 kV and 39.7 kA, HEM₁₁ mode MILO generates a high power microwave output of about 1.47 GW at 1.45 GHz in particle-in-cell simulation. The power conversion efficiency is about 8.4 % and the generated microwave is in a TE₁₁-like circular polarization mode. In a preliminary experiment investigation, high power microwave is detected from the device with a frequency of 1.46 GHz, an output energy of 43 J-47 J, and a pulse duration of 44 ns-49 ns when the input voltage is 430 kV-450 kV, and the diode current is 37 kA-39 kA.     

>100-kW linearly polarized pulse fiber amplifier seeded by a compact efficient passively Q-switched Nd:YVO4 Laser

We thoroughly develop compact high-peak-power Nd:YVO₄/Cr⁴⁺:YAG passively Q-switched lasers (PQS) as the seed source of the fiber amplifier. We exploit a nearly hemispherical cavity to reach the second threshold criterion and systematically consider the thermal lensing effect and the mode-size matching in the overall optimization. Employing a Cr⁴⁺:YAG absorber with 70% initial transmission, we obtain a 50-kHz seed pulse train with the pulse duration of 4.8 ns and the pulse energy of 22 ??J at a pump power of 5.4 W. Injecting this seed laser into a polarization maintained Yb-doped fiber, the pulse energy and peak power at a pump power of 16 W are enhanced up to 178 ??J and 37 kW, respectively. We also use an absorber with 40% initial transmission to generate a 25 kHz pulse train with the pulse duration of 1.6 ns and the pulse energy of 36 ??J at a pump power of 5.4 W. With this seed laser, we find that the surface damage of the fiber limits the maximum pulse energy and peak power to be 192 ??J and 120 kW, respectively.     

Pulse compression in AO Q-switched diode-pumped Nd:GdVO4 laser with V3+:YAG saturable absorber

By simultaneously using both an acoustic-optic (AO) modulator and a V³⁺:YAG saturable absorber in the cavity, for the first time to our knowledge, a diode-pumped doubly Q-switched Nd:GdVO ₄ laser has been realized. The dependence of pulse width, pulse energy and peak power on the incident pump power at determinate pulse repetition rate are measured. Under the absorbed pump power of 8.59 W, the pulse temporal profile of the AO-switching with the pulse duration of 14.5 ns, the double Q-switching with pulse duration of 7.6 ns at 10 kHz, and the passive Q-switching with pulse duration of 22.3 ns are obtained. The pulse duration is obviously compressed in contrast to the purely actively AO Q-switched laser or the purely passively Q-switched laser with V³⁺:YAG.     

Numerical studies on wakefield excited by Gaussian-like microwave pulse in a plasma filled waveguide

Based on a differential equation derived analytically in terms of wakefield potential ?_MW in a plasma filled rectangular waveguide, we investigate the wakefield (E_MW) generated with the help of Gaussian-like microwave pulse under the effect of microwave frequency (f), pulse duration (τ), waveguide width (b), equilibrium plasma density (n₀) and microwave intensity (I). The study conducted for three cases of τ > 1/f_p, τ = 1/f_p and τ < 1/f_p, where f_p is the plasma frequency, reveals that the amplitude of the wakefield is increased for the large pulse duration and higher microwave intensity but is decreased with the waveguide width and microwave frequency for all these cases. The wakefield shows stronger dependence on the microwave frequency when the microwave with larger intensity is used. The wakefield decreases at a faster rate with the waveguide width for the case of τ > 1/f_p.     

Increase in the average radiation power of a plasma relativistic microwave generator

The operation of a pulse-periodic plasma relativistic microwave generator with a pulsed power of 50 MW was experimentally studied. A change in the shapes of the electron collector and output unit allowed a significant increase in the average emission power. The microwave pulse duration was increased from 30 to 70 ns, and the repetition rate of microwave pulses was increased from 5 to 50 Hz.