Linear Analysis of 2-D Sheet Beam Cyclotron Maser With Metallic Grating Structures

Abstract

Based on a kinetic model, a linear theory of the 2-D sheet beam metallic grating cyclotron maser has been derived and analyzed numerically. The TE mode dispersion relation and the periodicity of the normalized amplitudes of spatial harmonics of the cyclotron maser with rectangular gratings are obtained. Through numerical calculations, the dependence of the growth rate on the gap distance between the metallic grating surface and the beam, the external magnetic field strength, the beam current, the transverse-to-axial velocity ratio, the axial velocity spread, and the beam voltage are analyzed. This article presents an analysis of interaction using the fundamental TE mode in the 2-D metallic grating sheet beam system. The fundamental TE mode in the 2-D metallic rectangular waveguide grating structure is the fundamental TMx mode in the 3-D rectangular waveguide grating structure and this method can be extended to the practical 3-D interaction system that operates at other TMx modes and has a good potential for the study of the combined resonances in cyclotron masers with grating structures.