KEYWORDS: Terahertz radiation, Magnetism, Oscillators, Microwave radiation, Electron beams, Medium wave, Photonic integrated circuits, Particles, Physics, High power microwaves
Microwave vacuum electron devices (MVED) are capable of handling more power in a smaller interaction
volume than the solid-state devices. An over-mode high power terahertz backward wave oscillator (BWO)
is proposed. The slow wave structure (SWS) is constructed as follow: a series of equidistant annular slots
are cut in the inner wall of a cylindrical waveguide. The dispersion relationship of the SWS is theoretically
analyzed. The parameters of this structure are optimized by using 2.5D UNIPIC code. The influences of
structure parameters and working parameters on the performance of the device are investigated, such as the
period number of the SWS, the beam voltage, and the strength of external guiding magnetic field. The
numerical results indicate that the frequency of the device is not sensitive to the beam voltage. This is the
typical characteristic when the device works at π-mode. Under the condition of the electron beam with the
voltage of 200 kV, the current of 1100 A, the inner radius of 2 mm , the outer radius of 2.5 mm, and
magnetic field of 5 Tesla, the TM01 mode wave begins to oscillate at 3.5 ns, whose average power is about
30 MW, frequency is 0.147 THz. And an efficiency of 14% is also obtained with a fine spectrum
characteristic. The numerical results demonstrate that the over-mode electrodynamic structure can be used
to decrease internal electric field strength while avoiding multimode generation and maintaining good
spectral purity.
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