Forward-wave enhanced radiation in the terahertz electron cyclotron maser

Based on the principle of electron cyclotron maser (ECM), gyrotrons are among the most promising devices to generate powerful coherent terahertz (THz) radiation and play a vital role in numerous advanced THz applications. Unfortunately, THz ECM systems using a conventional high-Q cavity were theoretically and experimentally demonstrated to suffer from strong ohmic losses, and, accordingly, the wave output efficiency was significantly reduced. A scheme to alleviate such a challenging problem is systematically investigated in this paper. The traveling-wave operation concept is employed in a 1-THz third harmonic gyrotron oscillator, which strengthens electron-wave interaction efficiency and reduces the ohmic dissipation, simultaneously. A lossy belt is added in the interaction circuit to stably constitute the traveling-wave interaction, and a down-tapered magnetic field is employed to further amplify the forward-wave (FW) component. The results demonstrate that the proportion of ohmic losses is nearly halved, and output efficiency is nearly doubled, which is promising for further advancement of high-power continuous-wave operation of the ECM-based devices.     

高信噪比集成化共振光电探测器

在理论分析的基础上，利用光电二极管的固有结电容和可变电感构成共振电路实现光电探测。通过精简电路并对电路板进行精密布板设计，降低由原内部混频电路带来的杂散寄生电容的影响；利用选定低噪声芯片、低转换损耗混频器及滤波器隔离噪声，构建高信噪比的集成化共振型光电探测器（RPD），并实现了对特定调制信号的高效探测。实验结果表明：在相同条件下，RPD增益在共振频率下比商用宽带探测器（BPD）高大约30 dB。利用RPD获得的锁腔误差信号的峰峰值是BPD的16倍，其误差信号的信噪比比现有BPD高18 dB左右。可见，此RPD能够为高性能压缩态光场制备提供器件支持。