自由电子激光放大器的小信号理论

本文根据单粒子模型阐述了自由电子激光放大器的工作原理,通过将电子运动方程线性化导出了小信号增益。结果表明,当电子束有合适的初速分布,周期静磁场和入射电磁波有确定的相位关系,并且满足电子与波的同步条件和电子回旋谐振条件时,电子能持续地和最有效地将能量交给入射电磁波,从而实现激光放大。     

非单色光抽运的光参量啁啾脉冲放大的带宽及增益特性研究

采用傅里叶变换的方法将脉冲光分解成不同的频率成分,建立了非单色光抽运的光参量放大耦合方程组的数值求解模型.研究了非单色抽运光对光参量啁啾脉冲放大的小信号增益、大信号增益以及增益带宽的影响.非单色抽运光降低参量放大的增益水平,但同时可提高增益带宽,且抽运光谱宽越宽,对增益带宽的提高作用越大.还进一步从相位失配和参量带宽的角度分析了非单色抽运光使参量放大的增益降低、带宽增大的原因. 关键词： 光参量啁啾脉冲放大 非单色光 增益带宽 飞秒激光     

自由电子激光中电子与辐射波相互作用有效时间的分析

利用已获得的大信号自由电子激光增益公式,导出了激光平均增长率表达式,分析了自由电子激光中电子与辐射波相互作用的有效时间,讨论了其主要物理参量对相互作用有效时间的影响 关键词：     

飞秒超强激光多通预放大过程中的脉冲信噪比研究

从啁啾脉冲放大的基本理论出发,详细计算了啁啾脉冲在多通预放大中各个时间点的增益情况,并设计了一个十通预放大器进行了实验研究. 结果显示,在抽运通量为1.6 J/cm²的非饱和放大情况下,种子脉冲经过十通预放大之后信噪比由10^-5提高到10^-7. 这表明在非饱和抽运通量下,多通预放大器可以有效提高激光脉冲的信噪比. 关键词： 多通预放大 信噪比 飞秒钛宝石激光器     

电子回旋共振放大器的理论分析

本文利用动功率定理求解静磁场中运动的相对论性电子束与波导中电磁行波的相互作用问题。引入电子群聚函数这一概念,它有利于分析放大器中电子群聚过程。通过数值计算分析了互作用区中回旋电子与行波场之间能量交换全过程。计算结果表明:纵向波数的虚部不为常量,因此增益特性并非线性;在高效率、高功率输出下要求静磁场B₀高度稳定;调整工作参量降低输出功率值,则对磁场稳定度要求也降低。这些性质可通过对电子群聚过程的分析得到解释。 关键词：     

基于双通预脉冲清洁及腔内频谱滤波的高对比度飞秒激光再生放大器

为了提高再生放大器输出激光脉冲的对比度,需要同时提高激光脉冲纳秒尺度的对比度和皮秒尺度的对比度。利用普克尔盒对主脉冲和预脉冲时间滤波的方法,设计了普克尔盒的双通预脉冲清洁装置,通过该装置使再生放大器输出激光纳秒尺度的预脉冲对比度提高了5个数量级;利用频谱整形方法,通过在放大器腔内适当位置插入频谱整形滤波片使得主脉冲前400 ps处的放大自发辐射对比度提高了1个数量级。最终,在双通预脉冲清洁与腔内频谱滤波共同作用下,再生放大器输出激光纳秒尺度的预脉冲对比度从4.3×10^-4提高到了6.6×10^-10,放大自发辐射对比度(主脉冲前400 ps)从5.0×10^-8提高到了5.0×10^-9。     

近红外波段宽带时间低相干光参量放大技术

在激光驱动惯性约束核聚变研究中,具有宽带、低相干特性的时间低相干光源将有望降低激光与等离子体相互作用的不稳定性,成为新一代激光驱动装置的有力竞争者。实现高功率低相干光放大输出是低相干光驱动器能否应用于惯性约束聚变领域的核心。光参量放大具有大带宽、高增益、无热效应等优势,可避免能级型放大介质的光谱窄化问题,是实现宽带低相干光放大的有效方案。系统阐述了宽带时间低相干光参量放大技术的原理和技术特性,并基于实验验证了采用非共线相位匹配的近红外波段宽带时间低相干光级联参量放大过程,最终实现7×10⁷的放大增益和13.19%的转换效率。     

饱和放大情形下光纤参量放大器的增益和带宽特性研究

利用龙格库塔法数值求解非线性耦合方程,研究了单抽运光纤参量放大器在增益饱和区的增益谱特性.通过比较考虑抽运光损耗与忽略抽运光损耗增益谱的差别,分析了抽运光损耗对增益谱的影响.此外,给出了在饱和放大区,信号光的增益谱与光纤长度、输入信号光功率、抽运光波长与零色散波长偏离之间的关系.发现在饱和放大区,增益的整体水平有所下降,增益谱的可用带宽相对于小信号放大有所减少,增益谱在可用带宽范围内出现了旁瓣.这些结果将对工作在饱和放大区的单抽运光参量放大器的设计提供有益的帮助.     

等离子体波在喇曼自由电子激光中的作用

本文用参量放大器模型,分析了喇曼型自由电子激光中等离子体波的作用。结果表明,在忽略电子束初始横向速度的情况下,慢等离子体波与散射波耦合的必要条件为k_wv₂₀>ω_c,即电子的平衡态运动应处于第一组轨道。文中还求出散射波的色散特性和增益公式,以及散射波与等离子体波的相位匹配关系。 关键词：     

发散光束抽运的宽带光参量啁啾脉冲放大系统的理论研究

对发散光束抽运的光参量啁啾脉冲放大器的增益带宽进行了系统的理论研究.采用空间傅里叶变换和四阶Runge-Kutta算法，分别模拟了非衍射极限情况下的高斯光束和空间频谱为矩形的发散光束作为抽运光时的增益曲线.结果表明：不管是在可见光或是在近红外光谱区，用发散光束均可以明显地改善光参量啁啾脉冲放大系统的增益带宽.选取合适的发散角和抽运光强，可以获得高增益、宽谱带的信号光输出. 关键词： 光参量啁啾脉冲放大 增益带宽 发散角 高斯光束     

Experimental demonstration of a W-band (94 GHz) gyrotwystronamplifier

A four section, TE₀₁ mode W-band gyrotwystron amplifier has been designed, built, and tested. The circuit consists of three cavities followed by a traveling wave output section, each operating near the fundamental cyclotron frequency. The gyrotwystron has produced 50 kW peak output power, corresponding to 17.5% efficiency for a 57 kV, 5 A electron beam; the amplifier is zero drive stable at the operating point. The measured center frequency is 93.9 GHz with a full width half maximum instantaneous bandwidth of 925 MHz. These results represent a substantial improvement in the power-bandwidth product over previously demonstrated gyro amplifiers in this band. The small signal and saturated gains were 39 and 30 dB, respectively. The measured results are in good agreement with theoretical predictions     

A slow wave free-electron laser in a longitudinal wiggler field

Linearized Vlasov-Maxwell equations are solved to obtain the growth rate of free electron laser instability from a tenuous relativistic electron beam propagating in a partially dielectric loaded waveguide immersed in combined axial and longitudinal wiggler magnetic fields. The instability appears via cyclotron resonance interactions for wave perturbations very close to w-kV_z-w_c=nk ₀V_Z where n is the general harmonic number. For n=0, the gain is similar to a slow wave cyclotron amplifier. For n⩾1, the growth rate is substantially larger than the standard slow wave free electron laser scheme utilizing a transverse wiggler field     

Broadband operation of a Ka-band tapered gyro-traveling waveamplifier

A wideband low-voltage millimeter-wave gyro-traveling wave tube (gyro-TWT) amplifier operating in the TE₁₀ rectangular waveguide mode at the fundamental cyclotron frequency is under investigation, The device incorporates precise axial tapering of both the magnetic field and the interaction circuit for broadband operation. Experimental results of a wide (33%) instantaneous bandwidth with a small signal gain in excess of 20 dB and saturated efficiency of ~10% were achieved and shown to be in good agreement with the theory. Reflective instability due to multi-pass effects by mismatches was observed and characterized. Gain and efficiency have been limited by this reflective instability rather than by absolute instabilities which limit the performance of gyro-TWT's with uniform cross-section. The start-oscillation current in terms of the relevant experimental parameters such as the beam velocity ratio (α), magnetic field detuning and reflection coefficient has been measured and compared with theory. Measurements of the phase variation in terms of the RF frequency have shown that the phase varies ±30° from fitted linear phase line     

Self-consistent simulation of cyclotron autoresonance maseramplifiers

A self-consistent, one-dimensional model of the cyclotron autoresonance maser (CARM) amplifier is developed, and numerical simulations based on this model are described. Detailed study results of the CARM gain and efficiency for a wide range of initial energy and velocity spreads are presented. The interaction efficiency is found to be substantially increased when the axial magnetic field is tapered. Efficiencies of greater than 41% are obtained for a 140-GHz CARM amplifier with a tapered axial magnetic field and a 700-kV 4.5-A electron beam with parallel velocity spreads of less than 1%. A discussion of the nonlinear bandwidth and interaction sensitivity to axial-field inhomogeneities is presented     

Gyrotron travelling wave amplifier: II. Effects of velocity spread and wall resistivity

The small signal gain and bandwidth of the gyrotron travelling-wave amplifier (gyro-TWA) operating at the fundamental cyclotron harmonic are examined. The analytical and numerical studies focus on the effects of velocity spread in the electron beam and of a distributed wall resistivity in the waveguide. It is found that wall resistivity reduces the forward gain of the amplifier only by an amount approximately equal to 1/3 of the corresponding cold tube loss. Significant increase in bandwidth may result, under certain conditions, from the presence of wall resistivity. A moderate amount (5–10%) of velocity spread does not reduce the peak gain significantly in general, but may reduce the bandwidth by an amount depending on the applied magnetic field. Based on considerations of such factors as power, stability, gain, bandwidth, and efficiency, operating parameters for the gyro-TWA are suggested.     

Design of a 50 kW, wideband Ka-band slow wave cyclotron amplifier

A two-stage slow wave cyclotron amplifier is investigated to demonstrate a high power, stable, and broad Ka-band radiation source, operating at a low beam power (~60 kV, ~5 amps) and a low magnetic field (~7 kG). A linear theory predicts that the second harmonic gyro-BWO is competing in the amplifier and can be stabilized by inserting a sever in the interaction circuit. A slow-time-scale non-linear code, with a sever included, predicts a saturated gain of 24-28 dB, an efficiency of 15-17%, and an instantaneous bandwidth of 15-20% at a beam axial velocity spread of 2%. A broadband RF coupler, a mode converter, and a RF vacuum window are designed by the use of a 3D electromagnetic, finite element code. Measured RF characteristics are in good agreement with predictions     

Large-signal theory of gyro traveling wave tubes at cyclotronharmonics

A nonlinear theory of gyrotron traveling wave tubes (gyro-TWTs) at cyclotron harmonics has been developed taking into account the electron velocity spread and the possibility of operating with significant Doppler frequency up-shift (CARM operation). It is shown that the orbital efficiency of the relativistic gyro-TWT operating at the second cyclotron harmonic with large frequency up-conversion may exceed 60%. It is also shown that the influence of the axial inhomogeneity of the wave field on the relation between amplitudes of electric and magnetic fields of the wave causes small changes in the efficiency of gyro-TWTs. The results obtained demonstrate the sensitivity of the harmonic gyro-TWT efficiency with respect to electron velocity spread at different axial wave numbers. The expressions for the gain are derived and discussed,     

A scheme to enhance the conversion efficiency of slow‐wave electron cyclotron masers in the large signal approximation

Based on the anomalous Doppler effect, we propose a scheme to improve the practicability of slow‐wave electron cyclotron masers in the large signal approximation. This scheme simultaneously contains the tapered guiding magnetic field and tapered refractive index. Numerical calculations show that this scheme enables the conversion efficiency to reach a higher value within a shorter time than previous schemes. Besides, this scheme also works well in the cases of THz wave band and beam axial‐velocity spread.