Modeling and simulation of a 250 GHz metal PBG waveguide for gyrotron amplifier

Author

Singh, Surya Prakash ; Baghel, Gaurav Singh ; Thottappan, M. ; Jain, P.K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Inst. of Technol. Banaras Hindu Univ., Varanasi, India

fYear

2012

fDate

21-22 March 2012

Firstpage

828

Lastpage

831

Abstract

The traditional cylindrical waveguide in a gyrotron traveling wave amplifiers has been replaced with a novel Photonic Band Gap (PBG) waveguide structure having two dimensional triangular arrays of metal posts to address the mode competition problem and also to increase the power handling capability of these devices at short wavelengths of operation. This structure has been modeled and simulated for TE₀₃ - like operating mode at 250 GHz. The cut off frequency of the guide was calculated as 242.68 GHz. The pass band and stop band characteristics of the waveguide have been shown by making the transient study on this structure and also the bandwidth of the amplifier was found to be ~8 GHz. The coupling coefficient of the PBG waveguide has been computed numerically to choose the radius of the beam and the input coupler for the PBG waveguide also been discussed.

Keywords

circular waveguides; gyrotrons; millimetre wave amplifiers; photonic band gap; travelling wave amplifiers; waveguide couplers; TE₀₃-like operating mode simulation; cylindrical waveguide; frequency 242.68 GHz; frequency 250 GHz; gyrotron traveling wave amplifier; input coupler; metal PBG waveguide structure; metal photonic band gap waveguide structure; mode competition problem; pass band waveguide; power handling capability; stop band waveguide; two dimensional triangular array; Computational modeling; Instruction sets; coupling coefficient; gyrotron traveling wave tube amplifier; metal photonic band gap (MPBG); mode competition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computing, Electronics and Electrical Technologies (ICCEET), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kumaracoil

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0211-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCEET.2012.6203874

Filename

6203874