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A new scheme of the free-electron maser (FEM) with a ribbon electron beam is proposed in which the radiation is channeled in an open planar Bragg waveguide structure of two parallel plates with corrugated inner surfaces. The direction of corrugation is parallel to the radiation group velocity vector. The electron beam propagates in the waveguide at a large angle to its axis. The electron translation velocity is parallel to the direction of propagation of one of the partial waves that form the waveguide mode, which makes the maximum Doppler up-shift of the radiation frequency possible. A nonlinear analysis shows that the proposed FEM scheme provides a high gain (up to 30 dB). Using the Bragg waveguide, it is possible to ensure effective mode filtration, thus controlling the spatial structure of the output radiation.
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Original Russian Text © N.S. Ginzburg, K.E. Dorfman, A.M. Malkin, A.S. Sergeev, 2009, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoĭ Fiziki, 2009, Vol. 35, No. 12, pp. 9–17.
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Ginzburg, N.S., Dorfman, K.E., Malkin, A.M. et al. Free-electron masers based on planar Bragg waveguides. Tech. Phys. Lett. 35, 540–544 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785009060170
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