William W. Destler (2007 - )
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Efficiency enhancement by using depressed collector techniques in devices employing gyrating electron beams
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Design of a short-period-wiggler free electron laser experiment
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Experimental high power plasma-filled backward wave oscillator results
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Short-period-wiggler free electron lasers with sheet electron beams
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A Short-period wiggler millimeter-wave free electron laser for plasma heating and space-borne radar
(1987-12)We will report on the status of a new mm-wave FEL research program based on short-period electromagnet wigglers and a low voltage (500 kV) sheet electron beam. Recent results of measurements and theoretical modeling ... -
Numerical simulation of collective ion acceleration in the laser controlled collective accelerator
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Progress in high power millimeter-wave FELs with short period wigglers and sheet electron beams
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Measurements and simulation of controlled beamfront motion in the laser controlled collective accelerator
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1989-03)In the Laser Controlled Collective Accelerator, an intense electron beam is injected at a current above the vacuum space charge limit into an initially evacuated drift tube. A plasma channel, produced by time-sequenced, ... -
Depressed collectors for a large orbit gyrotron
(1987-12)An auxiliary magnetic cusp transforms rotational motion in the spent beam of a Large-Orbit Gyrotron into axial motion. Results regarding the interfacing of this cusp with a depressed collector region and the effects ... -
Low-voltage, megawatt free-electron lasers at a frequency near 300 GHz
(SPIE, 1988-01)Design procedures and beam transport feasibility experiments Il.re discussed for a novel, millimeter-wave free electron laser (FEL) concept employing short period magnetic undulators and a sheet electron beam. The ... -
High power plasma filled backward wave oscillators
(SPIE, 1988-01)Relativistic backward wave oscillators (BWOs) have proven to be relatively efficient, high-power microwave sources in the centimeter wavelength range. Recent Soviet results have indicated that the use of a background ... -
Intense charged particle beam propagation into vacuum
(SPIE, 1998-01)The propagation of intense charged particle beams into vacuum without the aid of externally applied confining magnetic fields is under investigation both theoretically and experimentally. In the configuration under study ... -
Studies of ion acceleration in a one meter laser controlled collective accelerator
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1991)The basic concept behind the Laser Controlled Beamfront Experiment has been described in detail in previous reports(1,2) In the experiment, control over the propagation of a virtual cathode at the front of an intense ... -
High power RF amplifiers for accelerator applications: The Large orbit Gyrotron and the high current, space charge enhanced relativistic klystron
(1990-10-23)Los Alamos is investigating a number of high power microwave (RPM) sources for their potential to power advanced accelerators. Included in this investigation are the large orbit gyrotron amplifier• and oscillator (LOG) ... -
Collective ion acceleration via laser controlled ionization channel
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1987)Initial results from a successful laser-controlled collective ion acceleration experiment at the University of Maryland are presented. In the experiment, positive ions are trapped in the potential well at the head of ... -
Experimental development of a millimeter wave free electron laser
(SPIE, 1990-12)A 1 MW (cw), millimeter wave FEL (X, « 0.5 mm) is currently under development with an application for heating fusion plasmas. Two salient features of the FEL are the use of a short-period wiggler £w < 10 mm) electromagnet and ... -
Demonstration of efficiency enhancement in a high-power backward-wave oscillator by plasma injection
(American Physical Society, 1989-05-15)An experimental demonstration of a strong enhancement of the interaction efficiency in a high-power relativistic backward-wave oscillator when plasma is injected is presented. Controlled plasma injection enhances the ...