Design principles for a sheet-beam electron gun for a quasi-optical gyrotron

The design considerations for a magnetized sheet beam for which the electrons have energy both perpendicular and parallel to the magnetic field are examined, including the basic design principles and scaling laws, the issue of orbit crossing and electrode synthesis in a sheet beam configuration, limiting currents both in the guide tube and across the resonator, and the edge effects and their reduction or elimination by the use of edge focusing electrodes. The application envisioned for the sheet beam is the driving of a quasi-optical gyrotron for electron cyclotron resonance heating and current drive in fusion plasmas