Room-temperature solid-state maser

M Oxborrow, JD Breeze, NM Alford - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
The invention of the laser has resulted in many innovations, and the device has become
ubiquitous. However, the maser, which amplifies microwave radiation rather than visible …

[HTML][HTML] Quasi-optical theory of relativistic Cherenkov oscillators and amplifiers with oversized electrodynamic structures

A Malkin, N Ginzburg, V Zaslavsky, I Zheleznov… - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Using the quasi-optical approach, we investigate wave propagation along the periodically
corrugated surfaces and their interaction with rectilinear relativistic electron beams (REBs) …

Using two-dimensional distributed feedback for synchronization of radiation from two parallel-sheet electron beams in a Free-Electron Maser

AV Arzhannikov, NS Ginzburg, PV Kalinin… - Physical Review Letters, 2016 - APS
A spatially extended planar 75 GHz free-electron maser with a hybrid two-mirror resonator
consisting of two-dimensional upstream and traditional one-dimensional downstream Bragg …

Generation of electromagnetic fields of extremely high intensity by coherent summation of Cherenkov superradiance pulses

NS Ginzburg, AW Cross, AA Golovanov, GA Mesyats… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
We demonstrate both theoretically and experimentally the possibility of correlating the phase
of a Cherenkov superradiance (SR) pulse to the sharp edge of a current pulse, when …

Generation of intense spatially coherent superradiant pulses in strongly oversized 2D periodical surface-wave structure

NS Ginzburg, VY Zaslavsky, AM Malkin… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We present the results of experiments on generation of high-power superradiant (SR) pulses
by an extended electron bunch moving in a cylindrical surface-wave structure with two …

[HTML][HTML] Perspective on room-temperature solid-state masers

DM Arroo, NMN Alford, JD Breeze - Applied Physics Letters, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The first solid-state masers to operate at room-temperature and ambient air-pressure were
recently demonstrated using optically pumped spin-triplet states as the gain medium. In this …

High-power millimeter-wave BWO driven by sheet electron beam

Z Wang, Y Gong, Y Wei, Z Duan… - … on Electron Devices, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The sheet beam vacuum electron device is an attractive choice for generating high-power
high-frequency microwave radiation. A millimeter-wave sheet beam backward wave …

Nonlinear theory of a free electron laser with a helical wiggler and an axial guide magnetic field

NS Ginzburg, NY Peskov - Physical Review Special Topics—Accelerators and …, 2013 - APS
A 1D nonlinear theory of a free electron laser (FEL) with a helical wiggler and an axial guide
magnetic field is developed based on averaged equations of the electron motion. By …

Surface wave Cherenkov maser based on a periodic lattice

IV Konoplev, L Fisher, AW Cross, ADR Phelps… - Applied Physics …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
The excitation of a surface wave cavity based on a two-dimensional periodic structure by an
energy source, such as relativistic electrons, results in stimulated, single frequency coherent …

Oversized co-axial and cylindrical surface-wave oscillators with two-dimensional periodical grating (quasi-optical model)

NS Ginzburg, AM Malkin, AS Sergeev… - Journal of Applied …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Within the quasi-optical approach, we study nonlinear dynamics of co-axial and cylindrical
surface-wave oscillators with two-dimensional periodic gratings. Electromagnetic fields in …