Effect of anode plasma on pulse shortening in magnetically insulated transmission line oscillator

A competition between two axial mode of TM01 is observed in the experiment of a L-band magnetically insulated transmission line oscillator (MILO) (D. H. Kim, et al., 2007). This mode competition can be affected by anode plasma formation during the operation. The transient time between two modes becomes shorter with additional anode plasma in MAGIC2D simulation.