Title :
A Method to Calculate Output Power for Sheet-Beam Traveling-Wave Amplifiers
Author :
Yin, Hairong ; Xu, Jin ; Yue, Lingna ; Gong, Yubing ; Wei, Yanyu
Author_Institution :
High Power Microwave Nat. Key Lab., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu, China
Abstract :
A method to estimate output power for sheet-beam traveling-wave amplifiers is presented. Two traveling-wave tubes are calculated by this method, and the results are compared with those of particle-in-cell simulation.
Keywords :
travelling wave amplifiers; travelling wave tubes; output power estimation; particle-in-cell simulation; sheet-beam traveling-wave amplifiers; traveling-wave tubes; Power amplifiers; Power system measurements; Traveling-wave tubes; Output power; sheet beam; traveling-wave tube (TWT);
Journal_Title :
Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TED.2012.2220365