• DocumentCode
    2075235
  • Title

    Development status of Ka-band coupled-cavity TWT technology for airborne radar and SAR applications

  • Author

    Legarra, J. ; Cattelino, M. ; Kolda, P. ; Li, J. ; James, B. ; Begum, R.

  • Author_Institution
    CPI Inc., Palo Alto, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    2-4 May 2000
  • Abstract
    The authors are developing Ka-band coupled cavity TWT technology for airborne radar and SAR applications. The general requirement is for a small, lightweight, high efficiency, conduction cooled TWT which produces approximately I kilowatt peak output power over 1 GHz bandwidth.
  • Keywords
    airborne radar; travelling wave tubes; 1 GHz; 1 kW; Ka-band coupled-cavity TWT technology; SAR applications; airborne radar; Airborne radar; Aluminum; Bandwidth; Cathodes; Coupling circuits; Packaging; Power generation; Power measurement; Prototypes; Synthetic aperture radar;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Vacuum Electronics Conference, 2000. Abstracts. International
  • Conference_Location
    Monterey, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-5987-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OVE:EC.2000.847477
  • Filename
    847477