Design and cold-test of sheet beam coupled cavity slow wave structure for W-Band TWT
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National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Vacuum Electronics, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China

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TN214

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the Key Laboratory Foundation 614280701020117;China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 2017M62299Supported by the Key Laboratory Foundation (614280701020117), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2017M62299)

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    This paper presents the fabrication and cold-test of a three-slot-staggered-ladder coupled cavity slow wave structure (CC-SWS) along with high power input-output couplers and RF windows in W-band. The SWS is fed by a rectangular waveguide coupler which is made up of a three-order step-transform rectangular waveguide placed on the short edge of the input cavity. Firstly, the dispersion, interaction impedance, transmission property and beam-wave interaction are studied using the simulation method. It is shown that the traveling wave tube (TWT) with a three-slot-staggered-ladder CC-SWS is able to provide a sat-uration output power of more than 1000 W in the frequency range of 91-96GHz, and the maximum saturated output power can reach 1125W at 94 GHz. Secondly, the CC-SWS is fabricated by the high-precision CNC milling and fixed in a nonmagnetic stainless steel housing. Test results of the fab-ricated CC-SWS with couplers and RF-windows are presented, showing the S11 < -10 dB in the frequency range of 90GHz to 100GHz. Therefore, the three-slot-staggered-ladder CC-SWS is a promising slow wave circuit of high power W-band TWT.

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LU Zhi-Gang, GE Wei-Hua, WEN Rui-Dong, SU Zhi-Cheng, ZHU Mei-Ling, DING Ke-Sen, WANG Zhan-Liang, TANG Tao. Design and cold-test of sheet beam coupled cavity slow wave structure for W-Band TWT[J]. Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves,2020,39(2):157~162

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  • Received:August 03,2019
  • Revised:April 01,2020
  • Adopted:December 02,2019
  • Online: April 01,2020
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