TY - GEN
T1 - Observation of mode competition in an 11.4-GHZ magnicon amplifier
AU - Gold, Steven H.
AU - Fliflet, Arne W.
AU - Hornstein, Melissa K.
AU - Kinkead, Allen K.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - This paper describes the observation of pulse shortening in an 11.4-GHz magnicon amplifier due to competition with a parasitic gyrotron mode. The parasitic mode occurred only at high operating powers, when the beam transverse momentum was high, and its excitation caused the power in the output pulse to fall off substantially. We analyze the competition between the gyrotron and magnicon modes using a time-dependent multimode gyrotron simulation code that has been specially modified to model synchronous magnicon as well as nonsynchronous gyrotron interactions.
AB - This paper describes the observation of pulse shortening in an 11.4-GHz magnicon amplifier due to competition with a parasitic gyrotron mode. The parasitic mode occurred only at high operating powers, when the beam transverse momentum was high, and its excitation caused the power in the output pulse to fall off substantially. We analyze the competition between the gyrotron and magnicon modes using a time-dependent multimode gyrotron simulation code that has been specially modified to model synchronous magnicon as well as nonsynchronous gyrotron interactions.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/70350645126
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/70350645126#tab=citedBy
U2 - 10.1109/PPPS.2007.4652488
DO - 10.1109/PPPS.2007.4652488
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70350645126
SN - 1424409144
SN - 9781424409143
T3 - PPPS-2007 - Pulsed Power Plasma Science 2007
SP - 1573
EP - 1576
BT - PPPS-2007
T2 - PPPS-2007: Pulsed Power and Plasma Science 2007, The 16th IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference and The 34th IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science
Y2 - 17 June 2007 through 22 June 2007
ER -