Development of high power gyro-amplifiers at Ka-band and W-band for radar applications

Author

Levush, B. ; Blank, M. ; Calame, J.P. ; Garven, M. ; Choi, J.J. ; Danly, B.G. ; Nguyen, K. ; Pershing, D.E.

Author_Institution

Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

6/20/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

157

Abstract

Potential applications for millimeter wave radar include high resolution imaging, precision tracking and cloud physics studies. For most of the applications in the millimeter wave band the relatively high atmospheric absorption necessitates the use of high power sources. In addition, many of the applications call for extended instantaneous bandwidth. Recent investigations at Naval Research Laboratory have been focused on enhancement of the power-bandwidth product in millimeter wave gyro-amplifiers. Both gyroklystron and gyrotwystron type circuits have been investigated to achieve this goal

Keywords

clouds; gyrotrons; klystrons; meteorological radar; millimetre wave power amplifiers; radar imaging; Ka-band; W-band; atmospheric absorption; cloud physics; extended instantaneous bandwidth; gyroklystron; gyrotwystron; high power gyroamplifiers; high resolution imaging; millimeter wave radar; power-bandwidth product; precision tracking; Absorption; Atmospheric waves; Clouds; High-resolution imaging; Millimeter wave circuits; Millimeter wave radar; Physics; Radar applications; Radar imaging; Radar tracking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High-Power Particle Beams, 1998. BEAMS '98. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Haifa

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4287-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BEAMS.1998.822407

Filename

822407