Theory of a planar free-electron maser with transverse electromagnetic flux circulation in a 2D Bragg mirror

A planar free-electron maser with a resonator consisting of a 2D entrance Bragg mirror and a 1D exit Bragg mirror is theoretically studied in the framework of a nonstationary 2D model. In such a configuration, the 2D Bragg mirror provides synchronization of the radiation emitted by a wide (compared with the wavelength) ribbon-shaped electron beam. The transverse electromagnetic energy fluxes arising in this mirror are closed through an additional coupling waveguide, which provides a single-mode single-frequency masing regime insensitive to variation of the beam parameters over wide limits.     

Orion KL超水微波激射辐射的“宁静相”物理特征

利用紫金山天文台青海观测站的13.7m的射电望远镜,观测OrionKL分子云的水微波激射辐射发现这个区的微波激射活动处于”宁静”状态,峰值流量为3×10⁴Jy,大约比爆发相微波激射辐射低两个数量级宁静水微波激射处于完全饱和的辐射过程,微波激射活动区的亮温度为3×10¹³K,氢分子数密度为8×10¹⁴m^-3,微波激射辐射两能级之间的布居反转粒子数密度为5×10⁵(H₂O)m相似文献   

Ohmic effects in quasioptical resonators

Several properties of the Fabry-Perot-type open resonator used in the quasioptical gyrotron (QOG) and the quasioptical induced resonance electron cyclotron (IREC) maser are derived. The electric fields of the normal modes are given for the general case of the resonator axis tilted with respect to the direction perpendicular to the electron beam axis. The ohmic quality factor and the power dissipated in the mirrors are derived, as is the energy stored in the resonator. The time dependence of the mirror heating, relevant for pulsed experiments, is also derived. The formulae are applied to an example of current relevance, the quasioptical IREC maser resonator.     

Theory and design of a free-electron maser with two-dimensional feedback driven by a sheet electron beam

The use of two-dimensional Bragg resonators of planar geometry, realizing two-dimensional (2D) distributed feedback, is considered as a method of producing spatially coherent radiation from a large sheet electron beam. The spectrum of eigenmodes is found for a 2D Bragg resonator when the sides of the resonator are open and also when they are closed. The higher selectivity of the open resonator in comparison with the closed one is shown. A time-domain analysis of the excitation of an open 2D Bragg resonator by a sheet electron beam demonstrates that a single-mode steady-state oscillation regime may be obtained for a sheet electron beam of width 100-1000 wavelengths. Nevertheless, for a free-electron maser (FEM) with a closed 2D Bragg resonator, a steady-state regime can also be realized if the beam width does not exceed 50-100 wavelengths. The parameters for a FEM with a 2D planar Bragg resonator driven by a sheet electron beam based on the U-2 accelerator (INP RAS, Novosibirsk) are estimated and the project is described.     

旋转对称波导型开放式谐振腔的一般理论

本文发展了在电子回旋脉塞中广泛采用的具有旋转对称性的波导型开放式谐振腔的一般理论。理论分析是在截面半径r(z)为任意缓变函数和存在功率输出的最一般情形下进行的,分析了其中场解的形式和性质,导出了谐振频率和Q值的普遍表达式,并以实例说明了实际计算方法。 关键词：     

谐振腔与共振线宽

本文提出了利用短谐振腔来减小铷激射器共振线宽的建议。在使用H₀₃₁模腔和石腊作涂层的圆盘状石英泡的情况下,设计了腔的几何尺寸,计算了填充因子,讨论了铷激射器的振荡条件。最后与原来的H₀₂₁模腔作比较给出了线宽。     

Short-wave sectioned free-electron masers with Bragg resonators based on the traveling and quasi-critical wave coupling

We consider the possibility of implementation of a free-electron maser with a two-mirror resonator composed of modified and conventional Bragg mirrors, operated in the short-wave part of the millimeter-wave range. The use of a modified Bragg mirror based on the traveling and quasicritical wave coupling at the input of the interaction space permits the transverse-index selection of modes. Amplification of the synchronous co-propagating wave by an electron beam is reached mainly in the regular part of the resonator. Even slight reflections from the conventional output Bragg cavity, which directly couples the co- and counter-propagating traveling waves, turn out to be sufficient for generation of self-excited oscillations. It is shown that the new scheme of a free electron maser ensures the oscillation frequency stabilization with respect to the electron-energy variation. With the optimal choice of the parameters, the oscillation frequency is close to the cutoff frequency of a quasi-critical wave excited in the modified Bragg structure.     

Natural masers:

This paper represents a brief review on some properties of cosmic masers, in particular on OH, H₂O, and SiO sources. Emphasis is given to problems of radiative transfer in the maser line as well as in other lines of the masing molecules. The importance of these effects is an essential difference to laboratory lasers.—Differences and similarities between the radiative properties of cosmic masers and other (NLTE) sources of line emission having no population inversion are pointed out.—Various pumping mechanisms suggested for the interpretation of the observations are summarized. Based on an invited paper presented at the 4th Intern. Conf. on Molecular Energy Transfer (Loccum, Germany, June 30 to July 4, 1975).     

Observation of stimulated emission at high gyroharmonics: basis for a synchrotron resonance maser

First experimental observations are reported on stimulated coherent synchrotron radiation from highly relativistic electrons in a strong magnetic field. The experiment employed a quasioptical millimeter-wave resonator and a 6-MeV electron beam gyrating in a field of up to 25 kG. Coherent radiation at 54 GHz, corresponding to the 11th gyroharmonic, was observed and characterized. These observations demonstrate the possibility of a synchrotron resonance maser.     

High-efficiency single-mode free-electron maser oscillator based on a bragg resonator with step of phase of corrugation

A new type of high-selective Bragg resonator having a step of corrugation inside the interaction region was used as a microwave system for a free-electron maser (FEM). Using a LINAC LIU-3000 (1 MeV/200 A/200 ns) to drive the FEM oscillator, a single-mode single-frequency operation was achieved at a frequency of 30.74 GHz with an output power of about 50 MW, which corresponded to a record efficiency of 35% for a millimeter wavelength FEM.     

Excitation of a magnetospheric maser through modification of the Earth’s ionosphere by high-power HF radio emission from a ground-based transmitter

A method for controlled excitation of a magnetospheric maser through the production of artificial density ducts by high-power HF radio emission from the Earth’s surface has been proposed and implemented in an in-situ experiment. Artificial density ducts allow one to affect the maser resonator system and the excitation and propagation of low-frequency electromagnetic waves in a disturbed magnetic flux tube. The experimental data presented here were obtained at the mid-latitude Sura heating facility. The characteristics of electromagnetic and plasma disturbances at outer-ionosphere altitudes were measured using the onboard equipment of the DEMETER satellite as it passed through the magnetic flux tube rested on the region of intense generation of artificial ionospheric turbulence.     

Global synchronization of oscillations in the level of whistlers near Jupiter as a consequence of the spatial detection of the <Emphasis Type="Italic">Q</Emphasis> factor of a magnetosphere resonator

The formation of the space-time structure of the intensity distribution for whistlers, as well as the content of the energetic electrons in the radiation belts of Jupiter, has been considered. Parametric nonlinear processes in a plasma magnetospheric maser have been analyzed. It has been shown that, owing to the azimuthal inhomogeneity of a magnetic trap in combination with the fast rotation of the planet, a component that is characterized by the periodic modulation and is independent of the azimuth coordinate is formed in the Q factor of the magnetospheric resonator. This modulation is manifested as an external force that ensures the synchronization of oscillations in the level of whistlers in individual magnetic field tubes under the global-resonance conditions.     

Parity states in the one-atom maser

An experiment to determine the parity of the photon field of one privileged mode in a high-Q resonator is proposed. Even parity indicates that the photon number equals zero, two, four or any other even integer; likewise, odd parity states are mixtures of states with any odd number of photons. The parity measurement can be performed while the resonator is pumped as in standard one-atom maser operation. The time dependence of the parity expectation value is studied theoretically, and we suggest its experimental verification, which would serve as a test of the standard models describing both the relaxation of the cavity field toward thermal equilibrium and the pumping process. The connection between parity expectation values and Wigner's phase space function is recalled; the central value of the Wigner function equals twice the mean parity and it is, therefore, a measurable quantity.     

Polarization properties of a one-atom maser under a step-wise two-photon pump

The theory of a one-atom maser, when the atoms enter the microresonator being excited to the upper maser level from its ground state by the bichromatic laser field resonant with the two adjacent optically allowed transitions with arbitrary angular momenta, is built. This theory is applied to the investigation of the polarization properties of a one-atom maser, i.e., the dependence of the maser field characteristics on the mutual orientations of the polarization vectors of the maser field mode and of the pump laser field. New experiments are proposed to study such polarization properties, which may be performed within the framework of the experimental setup used by Professor H. Walther and collaborators [1–3].     

小型化氢脉泽原子储存时间设计

氢微波激射器（氢脉泽）采用原子储存泡对氢原子进行囚禁,在低损耗谐振腔内形成稳定的自持振荡.本文采用具备低腔频温度系数的介质加载谐振腔替换传统的腔-泡结构,实现了氢脉泽的小型化;并分析了这种小型化方案对频率稳定度和准确度的影响.原子储存时间设计值为0.4 s,闭环后的频率稳定度为5.6×10^-15/（1 000 s）,与储存时间设计结果相吻合.     

Effect of longitudinal space-charge waves of a helical relativisticelectron beam on the cyclotron maser instability

The influence of the longitudinal space-charge waves of a coherently gyrophased helical relativistic electron beam on the cyclotron maser instability is investigated in a cylindrical waveguide configuration using a three-dimensional kinetic theory. A dispersion relation that includes waveguide effects is derived. The stability properties of the cyclotron maser interaction are examined in detail. It is shown that, in general, the effects of space-charge waves on a coherently gyrophased beam are suppressed in a waveguide geometry, in comparison with an ideal one-dimensional cyclotron maser with similar beam parameters     

Powerful Cherenkov oscillators with 2D distributed feedback

The feasibility of using 2D distributed feedback based on 2D planar and coaxial Bragg structures for generating spatially coherent radiation from rectilinear ribbon and tubular electron beams is studied. One-section and sectional Cherenkov masers are analyzed. In the former design, a 2D Bragg structure acts as a resonator and a periodic slow-wave system simultaneously. In the latter (sectional) design, radiation is synchronized in a 2D Bragg structure that is placed at the cathode end of the interaction space and couples longitudinal and transverse (azimuthal) wave flows. The wave is amplified by the electron beam mainly in the fairly long middle section. The output (collector) part contains a standard 1D Bragg structure that partially reflects the amplified radiation toward the cathode and closes the feedback circuit. It is shown that dissipation introduced into the 2D Bragg structure of the sectional design makes it possible to increase one of the transverse sizes of the system to ∼10³ wavelengths with the energy exchange efficiency and one-frequency masing mode stability remaining the same. With such an overdimension, the millimeter-wave radiation integral power may reach a gigawatt level.     

无缓冲气体涂层泡Rb87激射器

本文提出一种不用缓冲气体而用涂层泡的Rb⁸⁷激射器的试验方案。给出了满足激射振荡要求的特定的涂层泡的设计,同时,讨论了激射器的振荡条件及予期所能获得的短期频率稳定度。最后,指出该激射器可能发展为长、短稳兼优的频标。     

激光抽运铯束贮存泡激射器

本文提出一种铯原子束激射器的建议,其中利用了双束激光抽运选态技术和原子贮存泡方法。用密度矩阵理论分析了振荡条件,给出了激射器的振荡功率和进泡的原子束流之间的关系式。在使用TE₀₂₁模腔和石腊作涂层的环状石英泡的情况下,计算了激射器的振荡功率、线宽和腔的填充因子,对激射器的短稳亦作了相应的估计。还给出了双原子束双隔离泡的此类激射器的设想。     

Cooperation of traveling and quasi-cutoff waves in a cyclotron-resonance maser

A new version of a cyclotron-resonance maser is studied theoretically and experimentally. Here, a spatially periodic helical electron beam couples traveling (autoresonance) and quasi-cutoff (gyrotron) waves of the same frequency, interacting with them at different cyclotron harmonics. The theory and early experimental results show that this maser can effectively generate a traveling wave with low quasi-cutoff wave excitation losses using a very simple feedback system.