Experimental demonstration of a 5th harmonic mm-wave frequency multiplying vacuum tube

Toufexis, Filippos; Tantawi, Sami G.; Jensen, Aaron; Dolgashev, Valery A.; Haase, Andrew; Fazio, Michael V.; Borchard, Philipp

doi:10.1063/1.4990970

Experimental demonstration of a 5th harmonic mm-wave frequency multiplying vacuum tube

Journal Article · Mon Jun 26 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Applied Physics Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4990970· OSTI ID:1373201

Toufexis, Filippos ^[1]; Tantawi, Sami G. ^[2]; Jensen, Aaron ^[2]; Dolgashev, Valery A. ^[2]; Haase, Andrew ^[2]; Fazio, Michael V. ^[2]; Borchard, Philipp ^[3]

SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Dymenso LLC, San Francisco, CA (United States)

Here, we report the experimental demonstration of a 5th harmonic mm-wave frequency multiplying vacuum electronic device, which uses an over-moded spherical sector output cavity. In this device, a pencil electron beam is helically deflected in a transverse deflecting cavity before entering the output cavity. No magnetic field is required to focus or guide the beam. We built and tested a proof-of-principle device with an output frequency of 57.12 GHz. The measured peak power was 52.67 W at the 5th harmonic of the drive frequency. Power at the 4th, 6th, and 7th harmonics was 33.28 dB lower than that at the 5th harmonic.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515

OSTI ID:: 1373201

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1371494

Journal Information:: Applied Physics Letters, Journal Name: Applied Physics Letters Journal Issue: 26 Vol. 110; ISSN 0003-6951

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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