MICROPULSES GENERATION IN ECR BREAKDOWN STIMULATED BY GYROTRON RADIATION 37,5 GHZ AT

Present work is devoted to experimental and theoretical investigation of possibility of short pulsed (< 100 µs) multicharged ion beams creation. The possibility of quasi-stationary generation of short pulsed beams under conditions of quasi-gasdynamic plasma confinement was shown in recent experiments. Later another way of such beams creation based on “Preglow” effect was proposed. In present work it was demonstrated that in the case when duration of MW pulse is less then formation time of “Preglow” peak, realization of a regime when ion current is negligible during MW pulse and intense multicharged ions flux appears only when MW ends could be possible. Such pulses after the end of MW were called "micropulses". In present work generation of micropulses was observed in experiments with ECR discharge stimulated by gyrotron radiation @ 37,5GHz, 100 kW. In this case pulses with duration less than 30 µs were obtained. Probably the same effect was observed in GANIL where 14 GHz radiation was used and pulses with duration about 2 ms were registered [1]. In present work it was shown that intensity of such micropulse could be higher than intensity of “Preglow” peak at the same conditions but with longer MW pulse. The generation of micropulses of nitrogen and argon multicharged ions with current of a few mA and length about 30 µs after MW pulse with duration of 30-100 µs was demonstrated. The low level of impurities, high current density and rather high average charge make possible to consider such micropulse regime as perspective way for creation of a short pulsed ion source.