Relativistic effect in electron cyclotron transverse wave devices
- 1 December 1969
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
- Vol. 16 (12) , 1077-1078
- https://doi.org/10.1109/t-ed.1969.16910
Abstract
This note presents a simple physical argument which demonstrates the importance of relativistic electron bunching interactions between rotating electrons and an RF electric field in the plane of rotation, normal to a dc magnetic field. A magnitude comparison between the relativistic angular bunching and the well-known longitudinal bunching due to the transverse RF magnetic field shows that the close-to-cutoff operation of a number of recent cyclotron-frequency transverse-wave experiments is due solely to the relativistic effect.Keywords
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