Study of microwave frequency radiated from a vircator

Author

Yatsuzuka, M. ; Tanigawa, M. ; Nobuhara, S. ; Young, Devin ; Ishihara, O.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Himeji Inst. of Technol., Hyogo, Japan

fYear

1997

fDate

19-22 May 1997

Firstpage

256

Abstract

Summary form only given. Microwave frequency radiated from a virtual cathode oscillator (vircator) is studied experimentally. The vircator diode consists of an annular cathode of diameter of 2.0-3.5 cm and 1 mm in thickness and an aluminum foil of 15 /spl mu/m in thickness. The emitted microwaves were extracted axially through a circular waveguide with a diameter of 4.5 cm and a length of 1 m, and radiated outward through a circular horn attached to the waveguide. The radiated microwave signals were picked up by an open-end rectangular waveguide antenna (WRJ-10) at the position of 1 m from the circular horn. The microwave frequency was then determined from the propagation time of the signals in a line of 105-m waveguide.

Keywords

circular waveguides; microwave generation; microwave measurement; microwave oscillators; microwave propagation; microwave tubes; plasma devices; vircators; 1 m; 1 mm; 105 m; 15 mum; 2 to 3.5 cm; 4.5 cm; WRJ-10; annular cathode; circular horn; circular waveguide; microwave frequency; open-end rectangular waveguide antenna; propagation time; radiated microwave signals; vircator; vircator diode; virtual cathode oscillator; Aluminum; Antennas and propagation; Cathodes; Diodes; Horn antennas; Microwave antennas; Microwave frequencies; Microwave oscillators; Microwave propagation; Rectangular waveguides;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Plasma Science, 1997. IEEE Conference Record - Abstracts., 1997 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA, USA

ISSN

0730-9244

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3990-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PLASMA.1997.605013

Filename

605013