Counterstreaming electron beams

NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CHAOS IN THE COUNTERSTREAMING ELECTRON BEAMS WITH VIRTUAL CATHODES IN VIRCATOR WITHOUT EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD

Virtual cathode nonstationary dynamics has been numerically studied for the two counterstreaming electron beams. The variety of the virtual cathode oscillatory regimes has been discovered from regular to wide band chaotic oscillations. Connection between value of the largest Lyapunov exponent and output signal power has been revealed.