2C  THz Sources (oral)

Monday, June 21  15:30-17:30  Hampton Rds I-II-III

15:30  2C-1  (invited) OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES OF WORKING IN THE THZ REGION OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF APPLICATIONS AND SOURCES

C. M. Armstrong

L-3 Communications Electron Devices, San Carlos, CA, United States

16:00  2C-2 THZ POWER AMPLIFIER DEVELOPMENT AT NORTHROP GRUMMAN

M. Basten, J. Tucek, D. Gallagher, K. Kreischer

Northrop Grumman, Rolling Meadows, IL, United States

16:15  2C-3 EXTENDED INTERACTION KLYSTRONS FOR TERAHERTZ POWER AMPLIFIERS

D. Chernin¹, A. Burke¹, I. Chernyavskiy¹, J. Petillo¹, A. Roitman², P. Horoyski², M. Hyttinen², R. Dobbs², D. Berry², M. Blank³, K. Nguyen⁴, V. Jabotinsky⁴, E. Wright⁴, D. Pershing⁴, J. Calame⁵, B. Levush⁵, J. Neilson⁶, T. Gaier⁷, A. Skalare⁷, N. S. Barker⁸, R. Weikle⁸, J. Booske⁹

¹SAIC, Washington, DC, United States
²Communications and Medical Products, CPI, Georgetown, Ontario, Canada
³Microwave Power Products, CPI, Palo Alto, CA, United States
⁴Beam-Wave Research, Inc, Bethesda, MD, United States
⁵Vacuum Electronics Branch, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
⁶Lexam Research, Redwood City, CA, United States
⁷Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
⁸University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States
⁹University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States

16:30  2C-4 DESIGN OF A 670 GHZ EXTENDED INTERACTION KLYSTRON

K. Nguyen¹, E. Wright¹, V. Jabotinski¹, D. Pershing¹, P. Horoyski², A. Roitman², R. Dobbs², M. Hyttinen², D. Berry², D. Chernin³, A. Burke³, J. Petillo³, J. Calame⁴, B. Levush⁴, J. Pasour⁴

¹Beam-Wave Research Inc., Bethesda, MD, United States
²Communications & Power Industries, Georgetown, Ontario, Canada
³Science Applications International Corp., McLean, VA, United States
⁴Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States

16:45  2C-5 DETECTING RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS USING HIGH-POWER, TERAHERTZ GYROTRONS

V. L. Granatstein, G. S. Nusinovich, T. M. Antonsen

Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States

17:00  2C-6 THZ GENERATION IN PLASMAS USING TWO-COLOR LASER PULSES

J. Penano¹, P. Sprangle¹, B. Hafizi², D. Gordon¹, P. Serafim³

¹Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
²Icarus Research, Inc., Bethesda, MD, United States
³Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States

17:15  2C-7 A MICROWAVE SMITH-PURCELL EXPERIMENT - DEPENDENCE ON THE BEAM PARAMETERS

J. Gardelle¹, P. Modin¹, J. Donohue²

¹CEA/CESTA, Le Barp, France
²CENBG, Gradignan, France