Soft X-Ray Emission from Millimeter-Wave Electron Cyclotron Resonance Discharge

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Golubev, S. V. | Platonov, Yu. Ya. | Razin, S. V. | Zorin, V. G.

Affiliations: Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Science, 46 Ul’janov Street, Nizhny Novgorod, 603600, Russia

Abstract: This work is devoted to the experimental investigation of incoherent soft x-ray radiation from an electron cyclotron resonance discharge with pumping by a millimeter-wave beam from a gyrotron. The basic contribution to the x-ray spectrum was shown to be produced by a plasma emission in the wavelength region 4.5–12 nm. The power of the x-ray emission from the ECR discharge was about 35 kW, and the efficiency of conversion of the gyrotron radiation into an x-ray emission exceeded 25%.

DOI: 10.3233/XST-1996-6302

Journal: Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 244-248, 1996