The coaxial gyrotron with two electron beams. II. Dual frequency operation

The dual frequency operation (DFO) of the coaxial gyrotron with two electron beams (CGTB) has been investigated in this part by means of both linear theory and computer simulation. In such an operation, the cavity is at degeneration and one beam works at the first harmonic while another at high harmonic. Making use of the coupled-mode theory, the dispersion equation considering the coupling of two beams and two modes has been obtained. The results of the numerical calculation and the particle in cell simulation show that CGTB with DFO can obtain high output power at two different frequencies simultaneously. In addition, the power of the high harmonic can be enhanced due to the nonlinear coupling between two beams, and some interesting and important phenomena of CGTB with DFO revealed in the paper are of significance in physics.