Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to A V Savilov.
A spatially modulated (corrugated) electron beam provides Bragg-type scattering of two waveguide modes. This allows the use of corrugated beams as quick active elements in rf-pulse compressors. In an illustrative example shown with a peak power compression ratio of 20-40, a 10-20 ns output pulse with a peak power of tens of MW is predicted for a millimeter-wavelength compressor.
A different version of the regime of electron trapping is proposed for electron microwave amplifiers. The use of this regime in a cyclotron resonance maser with a weakly relativistic electron beam can simultaneously provide efficiency as high as 50%, a very broad (tens of percent) frequency band, and very weak sensitivity to the spread in electron velocity.
A high-power, frequency-tunable electrostatic free-electron maser, being developed at the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics "Rijnhuizen," shows lasing at various frequencies. An output power of 730 kW at 206 GHz is generated by a 7.2-A, 1.77-MeV electron beam, and 380 kW at 165 GHz is generated by a 7.4-A, 1.65-MeV electron beam. In the present experimental setup, without recovery of the spent electron beam power, the pulse length is limited to 12 micros. Nevertheless, the main issues, such as the possibility of high-power, single-mode operation and frequency tuning, have been confirmed. The experimental results and the dynamics of the laser process are well in accordance with simulations.