Efficient Operation of Traveling-Wave Tube Amplifier with Dynamically Adjusted Collector Bias Voltages

Author

Qiu, J.X. ; Abe, D.K. ; Antonsen, T.M., Jr. ; Danly, B.G. ; Levush, B. ; Myers, R.E.

Author_Institution

Naval Res. Lab., Washington

fYear

2007

fDate

3-8 June 2007

Firstpage

1267

Lastpage

1270

Abstract

We describe a novel efficiency enhancement technique for traveling-wave tube amplifiers (TWTAs) for applications in digital communication systems. The enhancement is obtained by tracking the time-dependent power envelope of the input waveform and dynamically adjusting the bias voltages of the TWTs multi-stage depressed collector. The instantaneous amplitude of the input waveform is used as a guide to optimize the collector bias voltages to the particular energy distribution of the spent electron beam to achieve maximum energy recovery. The improvement in recovered energy and efficiency has been demonstrated by experiment and through simulation by the large-signal helix TWT code CHRISTINE.

Keywords

electron beams; travelling wave amplifiers; digital communication systems; dynamically adjusted collector bias voltages; electron beam; energy recovery; multi-stage depressed collector; traveling-wave tube amplifier; Digital communication; Educational institutions; Electron beams; Laboratories; Multiaccess communication; Operational amplifiers; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium, 2007. IEEE/MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0688-9

Electronic_ISBN

0149-645X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2007.380423

Filename

4264062