Beam-Wave Interaction in Periodic and Quasi-Periodic Structures

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-26

3. Elementary Electromagnetic Phenomena

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4. Elementary Electron Dynamics

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5. Models of Beam-Wave Interaction in Slow-Wave Structures

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6. Periodic Structures

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7. Quasi-periodic Structures

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8. Free-Electron Laser

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9. Basic Acceleration Concepts

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10. Back Matter

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During the past seven years I have been involved in the investigation of high­ power microwave sources for accelerator and radar applications. As for many others before me, the starting point of this book was a collection of notes on theoretical topics out of the material I had been working on. The notes were the core of a course for graduate students at Cornell University. When I started to prepare these notes it seemed a fairly straight-forward and not very time-consuming task since I had most of the material well organized. Today, three years after the preparation of the first notes, I can only wonder how naive this thought was. Most of my work was oriented towards analytic and quasi-analytic tech­ niques for the investigation of the interaction of an electron beam with elec­ tromagnetic waves. These topics are presented in Chaps. 4 and 6. However, for a systematic elaboration of these topics it was necessary to provide some general background, therefore parts of what are today Chaps. 2, 3, and 5 were prepared. Related topics of acceleration concepts were also prepared to some extent but I ran out of time and the material (Chap. 8) was not delivered. In the meantime, various sections of this book were taught at the Technion­ Israel Institute of Technology and Ben-Gurion University. In the last version I included a discussion on free electron lasers (Chap. 7).

• Undulator
• beam wave interactions
• complexity
• electromagnetic
• electromagnetic wave
• electron
• electrons
• free-electron lasers
• particles
• radiation
• structure
• undulators and wigglers
• wake-field accelerators

• Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion — Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

  Levi Schächter

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