학술논문

Generation of millimeter and sub-millimeter radiation in a compact oscillator utilizing the two-stream instability
Document Type
Conference
Source
2008 IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference Vacuum Electronics Conference, 2008. IVEC 2008. IEEE International. :164-164 May, 2008
Subject
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Oscillators
Electron beams
Optical beams
Laboratories
Optical modulation
Frequency
Millimeter wave devices
Millimeter wave technology
Electron optics
Stimulated emission
Language
Abstract
Summary form only. We propose a novel technique to produce sub-millimeter radiation; this technique mingles two electron beams of slightly different energies. On their own, these beams will exhibit a two-stream instability. Proper initial modulation of the beams can control this instability, allowing such a device to act as an oscillator chosen radiation frequencies in the millimeter and sub-millimeter ranges. Simulations of this device show amplification of 100- GHz radiation, with convenient scaling up to 1 THz. Additionally, the experiment merely requires two low-voltage, low-current electron beams and straightforward beam and millimeter-wave optics; with a total beamline length of under meter. We predict this simple and compact device can generate up to 100 W of 1-THz radiation.