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Design and demonstration of a 0.22 THz gyrotron oscillator

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Gyrotrons are the most powerful terahertz sources and have potential applications in many areas. A terahertz gyrotron oscillator with a pulsed solenoid producing up to an 8 T magnetic field has been designed, constructed and tested. In a 7.96 T magnetic field, 3 kW output power radiations at 0.22 THz frequency have been generated.

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  1. Institute of High Energy Electronics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China

    Yang Yan, ShengGang Liu, XiaoYun Li, WenJie Fu & XueSong Yuan

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Supported by the State Key Development Program of Basic Research of China (Grant No. 2007CB310400) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 1067611)

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Yan, Y., Liu, S., Li, X. et al. Design and demonstration of a 0.22 THz gyrotron oscillator. Chin. Sci. Bull. 54, 1495–1499 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-009-0172-9

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