Gyrotron: Resources for Growth

Until recently, development of new gyrotrons focused mainly on the increase of their operating frequency, power and efficiency. The power level of modern cw gyrotrons has reach 1 MW and there is an evident tendency further increase their output power to at least up to 1.5-2 MW.It is evident, that there are rather significant reserves for decrease of the losses and appropriate enhancement of the gyrotron efficiency and power. However, the opportunities for realization of these reserves are almost equally distributed among practically all gyrotron subsystems and require essential efforts for optimization of these subsystems supported with the appropriate development of technology.