| Session Chair: | Alexander Vlasov |
9:30 5A-1 MODELING EMISSION PROCESSES IN THE FINITE-ELEMENT MICHELLE GUN & COLLECTOR SIMULATION CODE
J. Petillo1, K. Jensen2, D. Panagos1, S. Ovtchinnikov1, A. Burke1, B. Held3, E. Nelson4, C. Kostas1, J. DeFord3, B. Levush2
1Center for Electrodynamics, Science Applications International Corp., Billerica, MA, United States
2Vacuum Electronics Branch, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
3Simulation Technology & Applied Research, Mequon, WI, United States
4Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
9:45 5A-2 OPTIMIZATION FOR THE DESIGN OF ELECTRON GUNS
L. Ives1, M. Read1, T. Bui1, A. Attarian2, W. Tallis2, V. Forstall2, C. Andujar2, H. Tran2
1Calabazas Creek Research, Inc., San Mateo, CA, United States
2Mathematics Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
10:00 5A-3 HIGH AVERAGE CURRENT INJECTORS FOR FREE ELECTRON LASERS
P. Sprangle1, J. Penano1, S. Gold1, D. Gordon1, A. Ting1, B. Hafizi2, C. Mitchell3
1Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washinton DC, United States
2Research, Icarus Research Inc., Bethesha MD, United States
3Fellow, National Research Council, Washington DC, United States
10:15 5A-4 PARTICLE-IN-CELL MODELING OF RF-GATED THERMIONIC ELECTRON GUNS
D. F. Gordon1, P. Sprangle1, J. R. Penano1, A. C. Ting1, S. Gold1, B. Hafizi2, C. Mitchell3
1Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
2Icarus Research, Inc., Bethesda, MD, United States
3National Research Council Fellow, Washington, DC, United States
10:30 5A-5 TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATION OF INDUCTIVE OUTPUT TUBES
H. P. Freund1, J. P. Verboncoeur1,2, W. Sessions3
1Science Applications International Corp, McLean, VA, United States
2Dept. Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States
3Advanced Science and Technology Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Laboratory, Dahlgren, VA, United States
10:45 5A-6 INDUCTIVE OUTPUT TUBE MODELING AND SIMULATION CODE DEVELOPMENT
E. L. Wright1, K. T. Nguyen1, J. A. Pasour2, A. N. Vlasov2, J. J. Petillo3, C. Kostas3, I. A. Chernyavskiy3, J. F. DeFord4, B. L. Held4, L. Ludeking5
1Beam Wave Research Inc., Bethesda, MD, United States
2Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
3SAIC, Billerica, MA, United States
4Simulation Technology & Applied Research/AWR Corp, Mequon, WI, United States
5ATK Mission Systems Group, Newington, VA, United States
11:00 5A-7 MODELING THERMAL BEAM EFFECTS IN COUPLED CAVITY TWTS
I. A. Chernyavskiy1, J. J. Petillo1, A. T. Burke1, T. M. Antonsen2, A. N. Vlasov3, B. Levush3, D. Gajaria4
1Science Applications International Corporation, 1710 SAIC Dr. MS T2-3-1, McLean, VA 22102, McLean, VA, United States
2IREAP, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
3Vacuum Electronics Branch, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
4Communications & Power Industries, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, United States
11:15 5A-8 EFFECT OF SPACE CHARGE WAVES ON THE ELECTRON ENERGY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS IN A LOW PRESSURE NITROGEN-OXYGEN PLASMA
N. P. Lockwood1, K. L. Cartwright1, S. E. Olson1, S. Stafford2
1High Power Microwave Division, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States
2Stellar Science, Albuquerque, NM, United States
11:30 5A-9 FAST IMPLICIT TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATION OF COMPLEX 3D SLOW-WAVE STRUCTURES
S. J. Cooke1, B. Levush1, I. A. Chernyavskiy2, M. Botton3, T. M. Antonsen, Jr.4
1Code 6841, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
2Science Applications International Corporation, McLean, VA, United States
3Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
4Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
11:45 5A-10 MODELING OF MULTISTAGE DEPRESSED COLLECTORS USING A 3D CONFORMAL FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN PARTICLE-IN-CELL CODE
M. C. Lin1, P. H. Stoltz1, D. N. Smithe1, H. Song2, S. J. Kim3, S. H. Jang3, G. W. Choi4, J. J. Choi4
1Tech-X Corporation, Boulder, CO, United States
2Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO, United States
3Agency for Defense Development, Yuseong-Gu, Daejon, South Korea
4Department of Radio Science and Engineering, Kwangwoon University,, Nowon-Gu, Seoul, South Korea
12:00 5A-11 3D COMPUTER SIMULATION OF THE COHERENT RADIATION FORMATION IN MULTIWAVE ĆERENKOV GENERATOR
V. A. Cherepenin, V. N. Kornienko
Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics RAS, Moscow, Russian Federation