John Booske received the Ph.D. degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 1985. From 1985 to 1989, he was a Research Scientist with the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, researching magnetically confined hot ion plasmas and sheet-electron-beam free electron lasers. Prof. Booske has been with the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW), Madison, WI, USA, since 1990. There, he served as Chair of the department from 2009-2018, and he is currently the Director of the Wisconsin Collaboratory for Enhanced Learning (facilities for IT-assisted, peer-collaborative, active learning). He holds the titles of Duane H. and Dorothy M. Bluemke Professor of Engineering and UW-Madison Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor. His research interests include experimental and theoretical study of sources and applications of coherent electromagnetic radiation spanning the RF, microwave, millimeter-wave, and THz regimes. His recent research activities include vacuum electronics, microfabrication of millimeter-wave and THz regime sources and components, high-power microwaves, advanced cathodes, physics of the interaction of rf-to-thz radiation and materials, microwave-generated plasma discharges, electromagnetic metamaterials and biological applications of electric and electromagnetic fields.

Edl Schamiloglu was born in The Bronx, NY. He received the B.S. degree from the Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics from Columbia University, NY, in 1979; he received the M.S. degree in Plasma Physics from Columbia University in 1981. He received the Ph.D. degree in Engineering (minor in Mathematics) from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in 1988 (dissertation advisor David A. Hammer, J.C. Ward Jr. Professor of Nuclear Energy Engineering). He joined the University of New Mexico (UNM) as Assistant Professor in 1988 and he is currently Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Associate Dean for Research and Innovation in the School of Engineering. He is also the Special Assistant to the Provost for Laboratory Relations. He lectured at the U.S. Particle Accelerator School (Harvard University in 1990 and at MIT in 1997). He coedited Advances in High Power Microwave Sources and Technologies (IEEE Press/Wiley, New York, NY, 2001) (with R.J. Barker), he has coauthored High Power Microwaves, 3rd Ed. (CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2016) (with J. Benford and J. Swegle), and he is coediting Advances in High Power Microwave Sources and Technologies using Metamaterials (with J.W. Luginsland, J.A. Marshall, and A. Nachman) (IEEE Press/Wiley, New York, NY, 2019). He has coauthored over 150 refereed journal papers, 250 reviewed conference papers, and 8 patents. His publications have been cited over 6000 times. His h-index is 35 and his i10-index is 111. He has been PI on over $43 M of contracts and grants at UNM.

Professor Schamiloglu is a Fellow of the IEEE, an EMP Fellow (sponsored by the Summa Foundation), and a Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Matter and Radiation at Extreme. He was awarded the 2013 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society’s Richard F. Shea Distinguished Member Award “For outstanding contributions to the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society through its Pulsed Power Science and Technology and Plasma Science and Applications Technical Committees,” the 2014 IEC ‘1906 Award’ “For his valuable technical contributions to SC77C projects and specifically for his technical contributions with respect to HPEM source technologies to support the standardization of test techniques for HPEM/IEMI,” the 2015 IEEE NPSS PPST Peter Haas Award “For research in the area of pulsed power, beams, and microwaves, and for his dedicated service to the current and future pulsed power community through his leadership and educational endeavors,” and the 2017 UNM Senior Faculty Research Excellence Award. He serves on the External Review Board for Sandia National Laboratories’ Radiation Effects/High Energy Density Science Foundation.

Manfred Thumm (SM’94-F’02-LF’19) was born in Magdeburg, Germany. He received the Dipl. Phys. (M.Sc.) and Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.) degrees in physics from University of Tübingen, Germany, in 1972 and 1976, respectively.

At the University of Tübingen he was involved in the investigation of spin-dependent nuclear forces in inelastic neutron scattering. From 1972 to 1975 he was Doctoral Fellow of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. In 1976 he joined the Institute for Plasma Research in the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Stuttgart, Germany, where he worked on RF production and RF heating of toroidal pinch plasmas for thermonuclear fusion research. From 1982 to 1990 his research activities were mainly devoted to electromagnetic theory and experimental verification in the areas of component development transmission of very high power millimeter waves through oversized waveguides and of antenna structures for RF plasma heating with microwaves. In June 1990 he became a Full Professor at the Institute of RF Engineering and Electronics of the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, and Head of the Gyrotron Development and Microwave Technology Division, Institute for Technical Physics, Research Center Karlsruhe (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe: FZK). From April 1999 to September 2011, he was the Director of the Institute for Pulsed Power and Microwave Technology, FZK, where his current research projects have been the development of high power gyrotrons, dielectric vacuum windows, transmission lines and antennas for nuclear fusion plasma heating, and industrial material processing. On October 1, 2009, the University of Karlsruhe and the FZK have merged to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). M. Thumm has authored/co-authored 6 books, 21 book chapters, more than 400 research papers in refereed scientific journals, and about 1550 conference proceedings articles. He holds 14 patents on active and passive microwave devices.

He was member of the IEEE EDS Vacuum Devices Technical Committee and the NPSS PSAC Executive Committee, and is a member of the Chapter 8.6 Committee Vacuum Electronics and Displays of the Information Technical Society (ITG) in German VDE (Chairman from 1996 to 1999) and a member of the German Physical Society. From 2007 to 2008 he was an EU member of the ITER Working Group on Heating and Current Drive, the vice chairman of the Scientific-Technical Council of the FZK and the vice chairman of the Founding Senate of the KIT. From 2008 to 2010 he was the deputy head of the Topic Fusion Technology of the KIT Energy. He was the General Chair of the IRMMW-THz 2004 and IEEE ICOPS 2008 Conference in Karlsruhe, Germany. He has been a member of the International Organization and Advisory Committees of many International Conferences and a member of the Editorial Boards of several ISI refereed journals. From 2003 to 2010 he was the ombudsman for upholding good scientific practice at FZK/KIT. Since 2012 he has been Editor for Vacuum Electron Devices of IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices, Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE NPSS, KIT Distinguished Senior Fellow and member of the International Advisory Committee of Cooperative Innovation Centre of THz Science in China. Since 2016 he serves as member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology Greifswald.

He was awarded with the Kenneth John Button Medal and Prize 2000, in recognition of outstanding contributions to research on the physics of gyrotrons and their applications. In 2002, he was awarded the title of Honorary Doctor, presented by the St. Petersburg State Technical University, for his outstanding contributions to the development and applications of vacuum electron devices. He received the IEEE-EDS 2008 IVEC Award for Excellence in Vacuum Electronics for outstanding achievements in the development of gyrotron oscillators, microwave mode converters and transmission line components, and their applications in thermonuclear fusion plasma heating and materials processing. Together with two of his colleagues he received the 2006 Best Paper Award of the Journal of Microwave Power and Electromagnetic Energy and the 2009 CST University Publication Award. In 2010 he was awarded with the IEEE-NPSS Plasma Science and Applications Award for outstanding contributions to the development of high power microwave sources (in particular gyrotrons) for application in magnetically confined fusion plasma devices as well as for stimulation and establishing of extensive international co-operations. He is a winner of the 2010 open grant competition of the Government of the Russian Federation to support scientific research projects implemented under supervision of Leading Scientists at Russian institutions of higher education (with Novosibirsk State University). Together with A. Litvak and K. Sakamoto he has been the recipient of the EPS Plasma Physics Innovation Prize 2011 for outstanding contributions to the realization of high power gyrotrons for multi-megawatt long-pulse electron cyclotron heating and current drive in magnetic confinement nuclear fusion plasma devices. In 2012 he was awarded with the Heinrich Hertz Prize of the EnBW Foundation and the KIT for outstanding contributions to generation, transmission and mode conversion of high and very high microwave power for nuclear fusion and the HECTOR School Teaching Award in Embedded Systems Engineering. In 2017 he received the Exceptional Service Award of the IRMMW-THz Society. In 2018 the was awarded with the IEEE NPSS Merit Award for his outstanding contributions and leadership in the field of electron cyclotron heating and current drive technology for thermonuclear fusion plasma research, and became ITG-Fellow for his outstanding contributions and leadership in vacuum electronics.

Prof. Manfred Thumm

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology , Germany

This lecture will cover an introduction to fast-wave microwave devices such as gyro-oscillators, gyro-amplifiers, and free electron masers. The beam wave interaction mechanism, physics of electron bunching and energy extraction will be discussed. The development of continuous wave gyrotrons with megawatt level power for use in heating, non-inductive current drive and diagnostics of fusion plasmas will be presented. The lecture will also cover the development of terahertz gyrotrons for use in novel applications such as in spectroscopy and the use of gyro-amplifiers in millimeter-wave radar.

Kwang-Je Kim received BS from Seoul National University, Korea, in 1966, PhD from University of Maryland in 1971, worked as an elementary particle theorist at SLAC (Stanford, CA), Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics (Munich, Germany), Johannes Gutenberg University (Mainz, Germany). He switched to accelerator physics in 1978, when he joined LBNL, serving as the Deputy Director of Center for Beam Physics. He moved to ANL in 1998, where he founded the Argonne Accelerator Institute. Currently, he is an Argonne Distinguished Fellow and a Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago. He performed groundbreaking research in synchrotron radiation and free-electron lasers, both in high-gain amplifier and low-gain oscillator. He published more than 400 papers and a book Synchrotron Radiation and Free Electron Lasers (Cambridge University Press, 2017) in collaboration with two other authors. He became an APS Fellow in 1995, received the International FEL Award in 1997, the USPAS Award in 2013, and the Robert Wilson Prize in 2014.