Abstract
The work reports the achievement of an energy content of 10 J per microsecond pulse in a directed flux of electromagnetic radiation in the frequency range of ~ 0.2–0.3 THz. The flux is generated by a fundamentally new method, which is realized through the pumping of upper-hybrid plasma oscillations in a magnetized plasma column with a relativistic electron beam (REB) and their subsequent transformation into a flux of electromagnetic radiation. In the described experiments at the GOL-PET facility, this method to generate THz radiation is implemented in the following way a beam of electrons with energy E ~ 0.5 MeV with a current density of (1–2) kA/cm2 is passing through a magnetized (4 T) plasma column with a density of 1014–1015 cm–3. By comparing the experimentally measured spectral composition of the radiation flux with the calculated spectrum, it is proved that this process is realized through resonant pumping of the branch of upper-hybrid plasma waves by such beam. A coordinated increase in plasma density and beam current density opens up the prospect of advancement in the generation of multi-megawatt radiation fluxes in the region of one terahertz.
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