Stimulated excitation of resonant Cherenkov radiation at a large number of neighbouring waveguide modes

Abstract: The resonance Cherenkov radiation generated from a train of equally-spaced unidimensional electron bunches travelling along the axis of a hollow channel inside an infinite cylindrical waveguide filled with (weakly dispersing) transparent dielectric has been investigated. It was shown that its excitation might be stimulated at a large number of neighboring modes of the waveguide. A visual explanation of this effect is given and the possibility of its observation in the range of terahertz radiation is discussed.