Abstract
To reduce mode competition in a high-harmonic terahertz gyrotron, the gyrotron with a quasi-optical confocal cavity is proposed. Theoretical and experimental investigations demonstrate that the confocal cavity has good-mode selection and is suitable for high-harmonic operation. However, due to the transverse nonuniformity of the radio frequency field, the beam–wave interaction efficiency is low in the confocal cavity. To mitigate this drawback, the double confocal cavity is investigated in this study. Through three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation on a designed 330-GHz gyrotron with a double confocal cavity, the physical mechanism of beam–wave interactions in a double confocal cavity is analyzed and presented.
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