Experimental results of the first efficient operation of a long-pulse cyclotron autoresonance maser oscillator are presented. Output power of 1.9 MW for a beam energy of 450 keV and current of 80 A, corresponding to an efficiency of 5.2%, has been measured at 27.8 GHz in the TEn mode of a Bragg resonator. The observed frequency of the cyclotron autoresonance maser emission corresponds to a Doppler upshifted frequency of 2.9 times the relativistic cyclotron frequency. A significant mode competition between the TEn and a TMoi mode is present.
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