A whistler-pumped free electron laser
- 1 November 1988
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 31 (11) , 3375-3378
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.866902
Abstract
A relativistic electron beam in the presence of a whistler wave excites a negative-energy beam space charge mode and a high frequency laser radiation (ω1≫ωc). The instability is explosive for a copropagating beam and the whistler pump, resulting in the excitation of an intense laser in a short pulse. The explosion time τ={(4/kv0)[(ω1−k1vb−ωc) γ0ω1/(ω1−k1vb)ω′pb]1/2}. For both the counterpropagating beam and the whistler wave, the instability is nonexplosive. The laser frequency in this case is somewhat larger, whereas the exponentiation time is comparable to the explosion time of the earlier case.Keywords
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