1. Power Enhancement in W-Band Pulsed Folded Waveguide TWT
- Author
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Xianping Wu, Jinjun Feng, Yinghua Du, Xiaoqing Zhang, Ruitong Dong, and Jun Cai
- Subjects
Physics ,Maximum power principle ,business.industry ,Tapering ,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials ,law.invention ,Optics ,W band ,law ,Duty cycle ,Physics::Accelerator Physics ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,Phase velocity ,business ,Waveguide ,Electrical impedance ,Beam (structure) - Abstract
To obtain higher power in ${W}$ -band traveling-wave tubes (TWTs), a modified folded waveguide (FWG) with non-concentric bends is introduced and demonstrated, which has higher coupling impedance compared with the normal FWG structure and is utilized to eliminate the band-edge instability of TWT. Phase velocity tapering (PVT) is also used to improve the interaction efficiency between the beam and the circuit. Furthermore, a higher beam current is used and the corresponding magnetic focusing system is designed to confine the beam. A prototype tube was then fabricated and tested at a beam current of 220 mA and beam voltage of 21.9 kV. The testing data show that this ${W}$ -band TWT is capable of delivering an output power of over 450 W with a 4.5-GHz bandwidth at a duty cycle of 10%, with a maximum power of 647 W and electronic efficiency of 13.4%. That is the highest output power and electronic efficiency test results of ${W}$ -band TWTs reported so far.
- Published
- 2021