Browsing William W. Destler--E-prints by Title

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    • High-average-power CW FELs for application to plasma heating designs and experiments 

      Booske, J.; Granatstein, V.; Radack, D.; Antonsen, T.; Bidwell, S.; Carmel, Y.; Destler, William; Latham, O.; Levush, B.; Mayergoyz, I.; Zhang, Z. (IEEE, 1990)
      A short-period-wiggler (period - 1 cm), sheet-beam FEL has been proposed as a low-cost source of high-average-power (1 MW) millimeter-wave radiation for plasma heating and space-based radar applications. Recent calculations ...

    • A High-power backward-wave oscillator driven by a relativistic electron beam 

      Kehs, Alan; Bromborsky, Alan; Ruth, B.G.; Graybill, S.E.; Destler, William; Carmel, Y.C.; Wang, M.C. (IEEE - Transactions on plasma science, 1985-12)
      A high-power backward-wave oscillator (BWO) has been constructed that is driven by a relativistic electron beam (REB). A typical electron beam of 2-4 kA is accelerated across a diode potential of 650-800 kV and then guided ...

    • High-power microwave generation by excitation of a plasma-filled rippled boundary resonator 

      Carmel, Yuval; Minami, K.; Lou, Weiran; Kehs, R.; Destler, William; Granatstein, Victor; Abe, D.; Rodgers, J. (©1990 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE., 1990-06)
      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 ...

    • High-power microwave generation from large-orbit devices 

      Destler, William; Chojnacki, E.; Hoeberling, R.; Lawson, W.; Singh, A.; Striffler, C. (IEEE, 1988-04)
      Experimental and theoretical studies at the University of Maryland on the production of high-power microwave radiation in cusp-injected, large-orbit devices are reviewed. Three classes of devices belonging to this ...

    • A High-power millimeter-wave sheet beam free-electron laser amplifier 

      Cheng, Shiqiu; Destler, William; Granatstein, Victor; Antonsen, Thomas; Levush, Baruch; Rodgers, John; Zhang, Z. (©1996 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE., 1996-06)
      The results of experiments with a short period (9.6 mm) wiggler sheet electron beam (1.0 mm x 2.0 cm) millimeter-wave free electron laser (FEL) amplifier are presented. This FEL amplifier utilized a strong wiggler field ...

    • A High-voltage triggered pseudospark discharge experiment 

      Ramaswamy, K.; Destler, William; Rodgers, J. (American Institute of Physics, 1996-11-01)
      The design and execution of a pulsed high-voltage (350–400 keV) triggered pseudospark discharge experiment is reported. Experimental studies were carried out to obtain an optimal design for stable and reliable pseudospark ...

    • Intense charged particle beam propagation into vacuum 

      Destler, William; Striffler, C.; Segalov, Z.; Yao, R.; Zhang, X.; Rodgers, J. (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 ...

    • Intense microwave generation from a non-neutral rotating E layer 

      Destler, William; Romero, H.; Striffler, C.; Weiler, R.; Namkung, W. (American Institute of Physics, 1981-04)
      The radiation produced by a hollow, non-neutral, rotating, relativistic E layer propagating inside a coaxial cylindrical drift tube has been investigated theoretically and experimentally. The measured radiation spectrum ...

    • Intense relativistic electron beam propagation in evacuated drift tubes 

      O'Shea, P.; Welsh, D.; Destler, William; Striffler, D. (American Institute of Physics, 1984-06)
      The propagation ofa magnetically confined intense relativistic electron beam (IREB) (I MeV, 27 kA, 20 ns FWHM) in vacuum drift tubes has been studied experimentally and theoretically. Experimental results for current ...

    • Introduction to the third special issue on high-power microwave generation 

      Destler, William; Levush, Baruch (IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics, 1990)
      No abstract found.

    • Investigations of the electromagnetic properties of finite length x-band slow-wave structures 

      Main, W.; Carmel, Y.; Ogura, K.; Weaver, J.; Tate, J.; Watanabe, S.; Nusinovitch, G.; Destler, William; Granatstein, V. (1993-06-07)

    • Ion energy relaxation in strong shocks 

      Destler, William; Morse, D. (1972-11-15)

    • Ion thermalization in strong, high-beta shocks 

      Morse, D.; Auer, P.; Destler, William (1972-07-04)

    • Laboratory simulation of artificial plasma clouds in the ionosphere 

      Morse, D.; Destler, William (1971-11-17)

    • Labratory study of high-beta plasma shock waves 

      Morse, D.; Destler, William (1970-11-04)

    • Linear analysis of a finite length plasma-filled backward wave oscillator 

      Ali, M.; Orgura, K.; Minami, K.; Destler, William; Granatstein, V. (American Institute of Physics, 1992-04)
      Absolute instability in a plasma-filled backward wave oscillator with sinusoidally corrugated slow wave structure driven by an intense relativistic electron beam has been analyzed numerically. The maximum spatial growth ...

    • Low-voltage, megawatt free-electron lasers at a frequency near 300 GHz 

      Booske, J.; Granatstein, V.; Antonsen, T. Jr; Destler, William; Levush, B.; Mayergoyz, I.; Radack, D.; Rodgers, J.; Rosenbury, E.; Segalov, Z.; Serbeto, A. (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 ...

    • Measurements and simulation of controlled beamfront motion in the laser controlled collective accelerator 

      Yao, R.; Destler, William; Striffler, C.; Rodgers, J.; Segalov, Z. (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, ...

    • Microwave generation from rotating electron beams in magnetron-type waveguides 

      Destler, William; Kulkarni, R.; Striffler, C.; Weiler, R. (American Institute of Physics, 1983-07)
      The production of high power microwave radiation at high harmonics of the electron cyclotron frequency by the interaction of a rotating electron beam with a magnetron-type conducting boundary has been studied theoretically ...

    • Microwave generation in a high voltage triggered pseudospark discharge experiment 

      Ramaswamy, K.; Destler, William; Rodgers, J. (American Institute of Physics, 1998-04-01)
      A set of five experiments to study the microwave emission accompanying the high voltage pseudospark discharge are reported. The generation of the microwaves in all cases but one is attributed to electron beam-plasma ...