• DocumentCode
    1860825
  • 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
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    27-29 April 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC), 2015 IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-7109-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IVEC.2015.7223812
  • Filename
    7223812