Abstract In this paper, we present a design where a bunched relativistic electron beam traversing inside the rectangular dielectric-loaded (DL) waveguide is used as a high power microwave generation device. Two kinds of methods of calculating the electromagnetic (EM) field excited by a bunched beam are introduced, and in the second method the calculation of EM pulse length is discussed in detail. The desired operating mode is the LSM11 due to its strong interaction with the electron beam. For the designed 7.8 GHz operating frequency, with a 100 nC/bunch drive train of electron bunches separated by 0.769 ns, we find that high gradient (>30 MV/m) and high power (>160 MW) can be generated. An output coupler is also designed which is able to extract the generated power to standard waveguides with a 94% coupling efficiency.
Received: 03 May 2008
Revised: 20 October 2008
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Fund: Project supported by the State Key
Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No
60532010).
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Lu Zhi-Gang(路志刚), Gong Yu-Bin(宫玉彬), Wei Yan-Yu(魏彦玉), Xu Jin(徐进), Gao Peng(高鹏), and Wang Wen-Xiang(王文祥) 7.8GHz power generation device design using a rectangular dielectric-loaded waveguide 2009 Chin. Phys. B 18 2445
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