Experimental Study of Microwave Pulse Compression Using a Five-Fold Helically Corrugated Waveguide

Author

Liang Zhang ; Mishakin, Sergey V. ; Wenlong He ; Samsonov, Sergey V. ; McStravick, Michael ; Denisov, Gregory G. ; Cross, Adrian W. ; Bratman, Vladimir L. ; Whyte, Colin G. ; Robertson, Craig W. ; Young, Alan R. ; Ronald, Kevin ; Phelps, Alan D. R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

Volume

63

Issue

3

fYear

2015

fDate

Mar-15

Firstpage

1090

Lastpage

1096

Abstract

This paper presents the experimental study of microwave pulse compression using a five-fold helically corrugated waveguide. In the experiment, the maximum power compression ratio of 25.2 was achieved by compressing an input microwave pulse of 80-ns duration and 9.65-9.05-GHz frequency swept range into a 1.6-ns Gaussian-envelope pulse. For an average input power of 5.8 kW generated by a conventional traveling-wave tube, a peak pulse output power of 144.8 kW was measured corresponding to an energy efficiency of 66.3%.

Keywords

helical waveguides; pulse compression; Gaussian-envelope pulse; conventional traveling-wave tube; efficiency 66.3 percent; energy efficiency; five-fold helically-corrugated waveguide; frequency 9.65 GHz to 9.05 GHz; frequency swept range; maximum power compression ratio; microwave pulse compression; peak pulse output power; power 144.8 kW; power 5.8 kW; time 1.6 ns; time 80 ns; Couplings; Dispersion; Microwave measurement; Microwave oscillators; Microwave theory and techniques; Waveguide components; Helically corrugated waveguides (HCWs); microwave pulse compression; mode coupling;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9480

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMTT.2015.2393882

Filename

7027876