A metal-insulator-metal vertical nanocavity is proposed to be integrated at the center of a plasmonic lens. Utilizing cavity resonance effect, the light intensity at the center of the integrated plasmonic lens gets enhancement up to 5500 times compared to that without the cavity, and the light field is tightly confined into a spot as small as 6.0 x 10(-3)lambda(2)(0). The Purcell factor of the cavity reaches up to 1400, ensuring greatly enhanced light-matter interaction inside the cavity. Moreover, the proposed structure takes advantage of linearly polarized light excitation and easy fabrication. (C) 2012 Optical Society of America
This paper presents a high-efficiency rectifying circuit for wireless power transmission at 2.45 GHz. A filtering and matching network designed by quarter wavelength stubs was developed for suppressing the second and the third order harmonics of 2.45 GHz, 4.9 GHz and 7.35 GHz, respectively. The measured RF-to-DC conversion efficiency is 66.5 % for an input power level of 10 mW.
A magnetic cusp gun (MCG) is being developed to generate an axis-encircling electron beam, which is called the large orbit beam, which is going to drive a 0.396-THz fourth-harmonic gyrotron. Developing an MCG imposes crucial challenges on a simultaneously minimizing guiding center deviation and velocity spread of the electron beam, particularly because an ultrahigh magnetic compression ratio is unavoidable, as is the case for a terahertz (THz) gyrotron. The study of the electron dynamics in the MCG reveals that, close to the emitter, a pair of focusing electrodes are employed to construct a special focusing and accelerating electric field as a way to balance the space-charge influence and guiding center deviation. Investigation indicates that both the electron-beam generalized-angular-momentum spread and the guiding center distribution are the critical factors contributing to beam parameter spread. Intensive optimization generates a high-power MCG with a pitch factor of 1.5, the highest magnetic field of 4 T, minimum transverse velocity spread of 1.1%, and a beam current of 2 A. The key parameters exhibit excellent stability tuning over a wide range of beam current and magnetic field. These merits enable the harmonic gyrotrons or even the frequency-tunable THz gyrotrons to be developed.
