Spontaneous emission of radiation by relativistic electrons in a gyro-klystron.

In this paper, we study spontaneous emission of radiation by relativistic electrons in a gyro-klystron. The scheme consists of two solenoid sections separated by a dispersive section. In the dispersive section the electrons are made non resonant with the radiation. The dispersive section transforms a small change of the velocity into changes of the phases of the electrons.This leads to enhanced radiation as compared to a conventional gyrotron type device driven by cyclotron maser interaction. It is shown that the klystron modulated spectrum depends on the dispersive field strength, finite perpendicular velocity component and length of the solenoids but do not depend on the axial magnetic field strength. The analysis is further extended to include the combined effects of the undulator aided gyrotron klystron radiation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]