Development of high power K/Ka-band helix TWT

Author

Chong, Chae K. ; Layman, Dennis A. ; Stolz, Richard J. ; Levush, Baruch ; Pasour, John

Author_Institution

L-3 Commun., Electron Technol., Inc., Torrance, CA, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

24-26 April 2012

Firstpage

119

Lastpage

120

Abstract

A helix TWT having unprecedented power across the full K/Ka band (18-40 GHz) has been developed. This TWT has a minimum CW output power greater than 130 W over the full band and greater than 200 W for most of the band (19 to 38 GHz). This K/Ka band helix TWT development has leveraged the underlying technology from L-3 ETI´s high-power millimeter-wave helix TWTs that were developed over the last several years for communications and instrumentation applications. Modern design codes that have been specifically developed for vacuum electronics devices by NRL / SAIC, notably CHRISTINE-3D and MICHELLE-3D were critical to the successful development of this high power-bandwidth product K/Ka-band helix TWT.

Keywords

microwave amplifiers; microwave tubes; millimetre wave amplifiers; millimetre wave tubes; travelling wave tubes; vacuum techniques; CHRISTINE-3D; CW output power; L-3 ETI high-power millimeter-wave helix TWT; MICHELLE-3D; NRL; SAIC; bandwidth 19 GHz to 38 GHz; frequency 18 GHz to 40 GHz; high power bandwidth K-Ka-band helix TWT; instrumentation applications; vacuum electronics devices; Bandwidth; Current measurement; Gain; Integrated circuit modeling; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Power measurement; RF amplifier; Traveling-wave tube; octave bandwidth;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC), 2012 IEEE Thirteenth International

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0188-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-0187-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IVEC.2012.6262098

Filename

6262098