Negative absorption from weakly relativistic electrons traversing a cuccia coupler

1965 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 84 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.W. Hsu ◽  
P.N. Robson
1958 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 564 ◽  
Author(s):  
RQ Twiss

Stimulated transitions are relatively enormously more probable at radio than at optical frequencies and it is this which makes it possible for negative absorption to arise at radio wavelengths when the medium will behave like an amplifier to the incident radiation. A necessary condition for the existence of this phenomenon is that the kinetic energy distribution F(?) of the radiating electrons be markedly non-thermal with an appreciable excess of high energy electrons such that �F/�? is positive over a finite range of the kinetic energy ?. However, this condition is not sufficient, since it is shown that an electron gas in which free�free transitions provide the dominant radiation process can never exhibit negative absorption whatever the form of F(?), and it is further necessary that the stimulated transition probability should have a maximum at some finite value of the kinetic energy, the most favourable case occurring when this maximum is a sharp one at the value of ? at which �F/�? has a positive maximum. These conditions can both be met in principle for the cases in which the dominant radiation process is due (a) to Cerenkov effect, (b) to gyro radiation by non-relativistic electrons, (c) to synchrotron-type radiation by highly relativistic electrons, and it is shown that negative absorption can arise in all these cases; the relevance of these results to radio astronomy is discussed briefly.


Author(s):  
J. H. Butler ◽  
C. J. Humphreys

Electromagnetic radiation is emitted when fast (relativistic) electrons pass through crystal targets which are oriented in a preferential (channelling) direction with respect to the incident beam. In the classical sense, the electrons perform sinusoidal oscillations as they propagate through the crystal (as illustrated in Fig. 1 for the case of planar channelling). When viewed in the electron rest frame, this motion, a result of successive Bragg reflections, gives rise to familiar dipole emission. In the laboratory frame, the radiation is seen to be of a higher energy (because of the Doppler shift) and is also compressed into a narrower cone of emission (due to the relativistic “searchlight” effect). The energy and yield of this monochromatic light is a continuously increasing function of the incident beam energy and, for beam energies of 1 MeV and higher, it occurs in the x-ray and γ-ray regions of the spectrum. Consequently, much interest has been expressed in regard to the use of this phenomenon as the basis for fabricating a coherent, tunable radiation source.


1989 ◽  
Vol 157 (3) ◽  
pp. 389 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.F. Alferov ◽  
Yu.A. Bashmakov ◽  
P.A. Cherenkov

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. G. Manahan ◽  
E. Brunetti ◽  
R. P. Shanks ◽  
M. R. Islam ◽  
B. Ersfeld ◽  
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Author(s):  
Paula Benaglia ◽  
Santiago del Palacio ◽  
Christopher Hales ◽  
Marcelo E Colazo

Abstract We present a deep radio-polarimetric observation of the stellar bow shock EB27 associated to the massive star BD+43○3654. This is the only stellar bow shock confirmed to have non-thermal radio emission. We used the Jansky Very Large Array in S band (2–4 GHz) to test whether this synchrotron emission is polarised. The unprecedented sensitivity achieved allowed us to map even the fainter regions of the bow shock, revealing that the more diffuse emission is steeper and the bow shock brighter than previously reported. No linear polarisation is detected in the bow shock above 0.5%, although we detected polarised emission from two southern sources, probably extragalactic in nature. We modeled the intensity and morphology of the radio emission to better constrain the magnetic field and injected power in relativistic electrons. Finally, we derived a set of more precise parameters for the system EB27–BD+43○3654 using Gaia Early Data Release 3, including the spatial velocity. The new trajectory, back in time, intersects the core of the Cyg OB2 association.


2000 ◽  
Vol 195 ◽  
pp. 439-441
Author(s):  
D.-Y. Wang ◽  
Y. Ma

Relativistic electrons may be effectively accelerated by turbulent Alfvén waves in radio jets. The acceleration spectrum is a power law with the electron energy as high as γ ~ 106, but the spectrum index is ~ 1.2 in the condition of diffusion approximation, which is less than the observation value.


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