EXCITATION OF WAKE FIELDS BY A RELATIVISTIC ELECTRON BUNCH IN A POLAR SEMICONDUCTOR WAVEGUIDE

Abstract

The process of wake fields excitation by a relativistic electron bunch in polar semiconductors is studied. Cylindrical semiconductor waveguide, in which relativistic electron bunch moves along axis, is considered. It is shown that the excited wake field in the terahertz and infrared frequency ranges consists of the field of longitudinal HF and LF hybrid plasmon-phonon oscillations and the field of the HF and LF transverse polaritons, which are a set of eigen electromagnetic waves of the polar semiconductor waveguide. The spatio-temporal structure of the total excited wake field is obtained, the intensity of the excited wake waves is determined.