• DocumentCode
    1527947
  • Title

    Experimental Investigation of a High-Power Ka-Band Folded Waveguide Traveling-Wave Tube

  • Author

    Gong, Huarong ; Gong, Yubin ; Tang, Tao ; Xu, Jin ; Wang, Weng-Xiang

  • Author_Institution
    Vacuum Electron. Nat. Lab., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu, China
  • Volume
    58
  • Issue
    7
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    7/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    2159
  • Lastpage
    2163
  • Abstract
    A Ka-band traveling-wave tube (TWT) was fabricated with a folded waveguide (FWG) as its slow-wave structure. The TWT demonstrates more than 700-W radio-frequency peak output power within a 2.5-GHz bandwidth. Because this type of TWT can be manufactured and assembled in an easy and cheap way, the FWG TWT will be a competing high-power millimeter wave source, compared to helix and coupled-cavity TWTs in Ka-band.
  • Keywords
    slow wave structures; waveguides; Ka band folded waveguide traveling wave tube; bandwidth 2.5 GHz; dispersion characteristic; high power folded waveguide traveling wave tube; power 700 W; slow wave structure; Bandwidth; Couplers; Electron tubes; Microwave measurements; Microwave theory and techniques; Power generation; Saturation magnetization; Dispersion characteristic; folded waveguide (FWG); interaction impedance; slow-wave structure (SWS); traveling-wave tube (TWT);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9383
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TED.2011.2148119
  • Filename
    5776668