Active high-power RF switch and pulse compression system
- San Mateo, CA
- Woodside, CA
- Mountain View, CA
A high-power RF switching device employs a semiconductor wafer positioned in the third port of a three-port RF device. A controllable source of directed energy, such as a suitable laser or electron beam, is aimed at the semiconductor material. When the source is turned on, the energy incident on the wafer induces an electron-hole plasma layer on the wafer, changing the wafer's dielectric constant, turning the third port into a termination for incident RF signals, and. causing all incident RF signals to be reflected from the surface of the wafer. The propagation constant of RF signals through port 3, therefore, can be changed by controlling the beam. By making the RF coupling to the third port as small as necessary, one can reduce the peak electric field on the unexcited silicon surface for any level of input power from port 1, thereby reducing risk of damaging the wafer by RF with high peak power. The switch is useful to the construction of an improved pulse compression system to boost the peak power of microwave tubes driving linear accelerators. In this application, the high-power RF switch is placed at the coupling iris between the charging waveguide and the resonant storage line of a pulse compression system. This optically controlled high power RF pulse compression system can handle hundreds of Megawatts of power at X-band.
- Research Organization:
- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00515
- Assignee:
- Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
- Patent Number(s):
- US 5796314
- OSTI ID:
- 871790
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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