Electrons and Coherent Radiation

3 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: NERS 471 or PHYSICS 405. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits) Collective interactions between electrons and surrounding structure studied. Emphasis given to generation of high power coherent microwave and millimeter waves. Devices include: cyclotron resonance maser, free electron laser, peniotron, orbitron, relativistic klystron and crossed-field geometry. Interactions between electron beam and wakefields analyzed.