Compact millimetre wave and terahertz radiation sources driven by pseudospark-generated electron beam

H. Yin; A. W. Cross; L. Zhang; W. He; D. Bowes; K. Ronald; A. D R Phelps

doi:10.1049/ic.2016.0018

Compact millimetre wave and terahertz radiation sources driven by pseudospark-generated electron beam

H. Yin, A. W. Cross, L. Zhang, W. He, D. Bowes, K. Ronald, A. D R Phelps

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Abstract

A pseudospark (PS) plasma sourced electron beam was both computationally and experimentally studied for generation of millimetre wave and terahertz radiation. The beam-wave interaction region is a sinusoidal rippled-wall slow wave structure of a backward wave oscillator (BWO) in G-band. An electron beam of ∼1 mm diameter carrying a current of up to 10 A with a sweeping voltage of 42 to 25 kV and pulse duration of 25 ns propagated through the interaction region in a plasma environment without the need for a guiding magnetic field, which resulted in broadband millimetre radiation generation over a frequency range of 186-202 GHz with a maximum power of 20 W.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IET Colloquium on Millimetre-Wave and Terahertz Engineering & Technology 2016
Place of Publication	Stevenage
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1049/ic.2016.0018
Publication status	Published - 31 Mar 2016

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BWO
pseudospark
terahertz generation
terahertz wave generation
backward wave oscillators
electron beams
millimetre wave generation
plasma sources
slow wave structures

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IET Colloquium on Millimetre-Wave and Terahertz Engineering & Technology 2016. Stevenage, 2016.

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