High-efficiency FEL-oscillator with Bragg resonator operated in reversed guide field regime

The aim of the present work was to develop a narrow-band FEL-oscillator working in millimeter wavelength with, high efficiency. It looked promising to combine the high selective property of Bragg resonator with high efficiency and other advantages of FEL operation in the reversed guide-field regime. An experimental study of the FEL was performed using lilac LIU-3000 (JINR, Dubna) with the electron energy of 1 MeV, beam current up to 200 A and pulse duration of 200 ns. The beam was injected into the internction region with guide magnetic field of 2.9 kGs. Transverse oscillations of electrons were pumped by the helical wiggler with the period length of 6 cm and the field slowly up-tapering over the initial 6 periods. The FEI electrodynamic system consisted of a circular waveguide with diameter 20 mm and two Bragg reflectors. The H wave of the circular waveguide was shown for operation. Two effective feedback waves were observed in open-quotes coldclose quotes electrodynamic measurement in correspondence with calculations; the E wave near the frequency of 31. 5 GHz and the E wave - 37.5 GHz. The width of the both reflection resonances was about 2%. In open-quotes hotclose quotes experiments the radiation on the designed H wave and frequencies corresponding to the both feedback waves was registered separately. Selection of the frequency was realized by varying of the wiggler field strength. The spectrum was measured with a set of the cut--off waveguide filters with inaccuracy less than 2%. Calibrated Semiconductor detectors wire used to measure the radiation power. The radiation with the frequencies of 37.5 and 31.5 GHz was observed in vicinity of the wiggler field amplitude of 2.5 kGs. The measured spectrum width of the output FEL-oscillator radiation did not exceed the width of the Bragg reflector resonances for the both feedback waves