On Noise Power in High-Current Relativistic Electron Beams Formed by Explosive-Emission Cathodes
摘要
Abstract
Numerical simulation is used to compare two methods for measuring power of wideband electromagnetic noise in experimental facilities with high-current relativistic electron beams formed by explosive-emission cathodes. The simulation shows that the difference in the experimental results by two orders of magnitude—several megawatts for pulses with a duration of few nanoseconds and tens of kilowatts for pulses with a duration of hundreds of nanoseconds—arises from the nature of the noise itself at different stages of the explosive-emission cathode operation rather than from difference of the measurement methods.