Title : 
Regime of nonresonant trapping in a CARM oscillator
         
        
            Author : 
Bandurkin, I.V. ; Phelps, Alan D R ; Savilov, Andrey V.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Inst. of Appl. Phys., Russian Acad. of Sci., Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
         
        
        
        
        
            fDate : 
6/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
A method for realization of the regime of nonresonant electron trapping in an oscillator scheme of the cyclotron autoresonance maser (CARM) is proposed and theoretically studied. A possibility to achieve simultaneously a high electron efficiency and very weak sensitivity to the electron-beam quality is demonstrated for a moderately-relativistic millimeter-wavelength CARM.
         
        
            Keywords : 
cyclotron masers; electron traps; millimetre wave power amplifiers; CARM oscillator; cyclotron autoresonance maser; cyclotron resonance maser; electron beam quality; high electron efficiency; millimeter-wavelength CARM; nonresonant electron trapping; oscillator scheme; Cyclotrons; Electron traps; Gyrotrons; Masers; Millimeter wave technology; Oscillators; Physics; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency amplifiers; Resonance; CARM; CRM; Cyclotron autoresonance maser; cyclotron resonance maser; millimeter wave;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/TPS.2004.828786