Design Methodology and Experimental Verification of Serpentine/Folded Waveguide TWTs

Abstract

The general electromagnetic properties and design methodology for serpentine/folded-waveguide (FW) amplifiers are presented. In addition, hybrid-waveguide circuit topologies,which permit greater design flexibility than the basic serpentine/FW topologies, are also introduced, and their dispersion characteristics are discussed. Experimental validation of design methodology and tools is provided via test results of the recently demonstrated wideband 220-GHz serpentine amplifier, which embodies the design methodology described herein. Particular attention will be paid to the comparison between code prediction and experimental data, which are in excellent agreement.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 17, 2016
Accession Number
AD1004165

Entities

People

  • Alan M. Cook
  • Alexander N. Vlasov
  • Baruch Levush
  • Colin D. Joye
  • D. Chernin
  • David Abe
  • Dean E. Pershing
  • Edward L. Wright
  • Igor A. Chernyavskiy
  • Jeffrey P. Calame
  • John Pasour
  • Khanh T. Nguyen
  • Lars Ludeking
  • Simon J. Cooke

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplifiers
  • Bandwidth
  • Circuits
  • Electric Fields
  • Electron Beams
  • Electronic Mail
  • Experimental Data
  • Fabrication
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Bands
  • Frequency Response
  • G Band
  • Geometry
  • Phase Shift
  • Radio Frequency Power
  • Simulations
  • Three Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Propulsion Engineering.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Microwave Engineering.