Vol 58, No 12 (2016)

We study locking of the oscillation frequency of the operating TE_28,12 mode by an external monochromatic signal in a multimode gyrotron operated at a frequency of 170 GHz in the switch-on regime close to the real one. Locking zones, i.e., regions of single-mode generation at the external-signal frequency are found on the “current—detuning” plane of parameters. It is shown that as the number of competing modes increases, the maximum achievable current decreases, and the locking zones contract at sufficiently high currents.

We consider a gas-dynamic model describing the formation of a plasma with multiply ionized ions under the conditions of resonant heating of the electron component. Based on the isothermal approximation, possible regimes of the plasma flow are classified, the influence of the geometric divergence of the flow on the formation of the ion charge distribution is studied, and optimal regimes for the achievement of the maximum ion charge are identified. The model can be used for optimization and interpretation of modern experiments on generation of the extreme ultraviolet radiation due to the excitation of lines of multiply ionized atoms in a gas flow heated by strong millimeter or submillimeter waves.

We show that a significant energy redistribution occurs in the spectrum of reflected nonlinear waves, when an intense acoustic beam is reflected from an acoustically soft boundary, which manifests itself at short wave distances from a reflecting boundary. This effect leads to the appearance of extrema in the distributions of the amplitude and intensity of the field of the reflected acoustic beam near the reflecting boundary. The results of physical experiments are confirmed by numerical modeling of the process of transformation of nonlinear waves reflected from an acoustically soft boundary. Numerical modeling was performed by means of the Khokhlov—Zabolotskaya—Kuznetsov (KZK) equation.

We consider an adaptive multi-channel interference canceller, which ensures the minimum value of the average output power of interference. It is proposed to form the weight vector of such a canceller as the power-vector expansion. It is shown that this approach allows one to obtain an exact analytical solution for the optimal weight vector by using the procedure of the power-vector orthogonalization. In the case of a limited number of the input-process samples, the solution becomes ill-defined and its regularization is required. An effective regularization method, which ensures a high degree of the interference suppression and does not involve the procedure of inversion of the correlation matrix of interference, is proposed, which significantly reduces the computational cost of the weight-vector estimation.