Title :
Linearity measurements on a Ka-band traveling-wave tube driver-booster combination
Author :
Abe, David K. ; Pershing, Dean E. ; Hanna, Jeremy ; Nguyen, Khanh T. ; Chernin, David ; Chernyavskiy, Igor A. ; Pasour, John A. ; Levush, Baruch
Author_Institution :
Electromagn. Technol. Branch, U.S. Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA
Abstract :
We present the first results of linearity measurements made on a Ka-band traveling-wave tube (TWT) driver-booster combination consisting of high power, broadband coupled-cavity TWT (CCTWT) cascaded with a folded-waveguide power booster TWT (FWTWT).
Keywords :
driver circuits; travelling wave tubes; waveguides; Ka band traveling wave tube; broadband coupled-cavity TWT; driver booster combination; folded-waveguide power booster TWT; high power TWT; linearity measurements; Broadband communication; Electron tubes; Linearity; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Power measurement; Traveling-wave tube; intermodulation; linearity;
Conference_Titel :
Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC), 2015 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-7109-1
DOI :
10.1109/IVEC.2015.7223812
