Experimental Implementation of the Method of Generation of a Sequence of Ultrashort Gigawatt Cherenkov Superradiance Pulses with a Nanosecond Repetition Period

Abstract

A periodic sequence of ultrashort superradiance pulses during the current pulse of an electron beam with a duration of about 40 ns has been generated in an experiment with a relativistic backward-wave oscillator with wave reflectors at the edges of the electron–wave interaction region. The pulse repetition period has been specified by the electron–wave feedback time and is 5.9 ns, which corresponds to the repetition frequency of 170 MHz at a FWHM duration of about 0.8 ns. The frequency of microwave oscillations is 10 GHz. The peak power of pulses is 0.8–1.3 GW. The corresponding conversion coefficients defined as the ratio of the peak power of the ultrashort microwave pulse to the power of the electron beam are 0.7–1.2.