0 M ar 1 99 8 Resonant Diffraction Radiation and Smith - Purcell Effect

An approach has been developed where the Smith-Purcell radiation (SPR), i.e. emission of electrons moving close to a periodic structure, is treated as the resonant diffraction radiation. Simple formulas have been designed for the SPR intensity for a grating having perfectly conducting strips spaced by a vacuum gap. The results have been compared with those obtained via other techniques. It has been shown that the intensity of radiation for the said gratings for a rela-tivistic case sufficiently exceeds the SPR intensity for the grating made up by a periodically deformed continuous surface.