IAP/RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
A natural problem arising in the case of realization of a THz FEM with a high-current relativistic e-beam is an inevitable use of an oversized microwave system, which characteristic transverse size significantly exceeds the wavelength of the operating wave. In this situation, it becomes difficult to provide selective excitation of a chosen transverse mode of the operating cavity. Our basic idea is to give up working on a fixed transverse mode. Instead, we propose to work on a supermode, which is a fixed set of several transverse modes of an oversized wavegude. We propose to use the Talbot effect [1,2,3] as a way to create an oversized microwave system of an electron maser that provides a high Q-factor for this supermode. On the basis of a multi-mode set of self-consistent equations of the electron-wave interaction we demonstrate the possibility of the selective self-excitation of the supermode both in the simplest 2-D model and in the detailed modeling of a THz FEM fed by a 10 MeV / 2 kA / 200 e-beam based on excitation of a Talbot-type supermode at a frequency close to 2 THz. The calculated efficiency at the level of 5-10% corresponds to the GW level of the output power.
[1] L. A. Rivlin, Laser Focus, p. 82, 1981
[2] G. G. Denisov, D. A. Lukovnikov, M. Yu. Shmelyov, Digest of 18 Int. Conf. on IR MM Waves, p. 485, 1993
[3] V. L. Bratman et al., Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res. A, vol. 407, pp. 40-44, 1998
NITTTR, Bhopal, India
Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India
Harmonic undulator, energy spread
