Folded waveguide gyrotron traveling-wave-tube amplifier
- Naval Research Laboratory, Vacuum Electronics Branch, Washington, D.C. 20375 (United States)
A compact, low cost gyrotron traveling-wave-tube (gyro-TWT) amplifier capable of producing high-power, broadband, millimeter wave radiation is reported. The interaction circuit is a periodic, magnetic field plane (H plane) bend, transverse folded waveguide employed with a high-power axis-encircling electron beam. Transverse beam modulation and wave amplification in the folded waveguide gyro-TWT are observed in both linear theory and large signal simulations. Calculations from an equivalent circuit model and a three-dimensional electromagnetic code predict a mode coalescing of the first stop-band in a periodic structure. The mode coalescing is verified from experimental measurements. {copyright} {ital 1995} {ital American} {ital Institute} {ital of} {ital Physics}.
- OSTI ID:
- 172029
- Journal Information:
- Physics of Plasmas, Journal Name: Physics of Plasmas Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 2; ISSN PHPAEN; ISSN 1070-664X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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