Design of a 100-W V-band coupled-cavity traveling-wave tube

Author

Liu, Yang ; Gong, Yu-bin ; Wei, Yan-Yu ; Xu, Jin ; Duan, Zhao-Yun ; Wang, Wen-xiang

Author_Institution

Vacuum Electron. Nat. Lab., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu, China

fYear

2011

fDate

20-22 April 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

The V-band frequency range is a region of the millimeter-wave spectrum that has been developed for inter-satellite communications. A 100 W V-band coupled-cavity traveling-wave tube (CCTWT) is designed using High Frequency Structure Simulator (HFSS) and particle-in-cell (PIC) code in CST Particle Studio. Hot-test simulations show that the designed V-band CCTWT produces saturated output power over 100 W with a gain over 33 dB at the 58-62 GHz frequency range when the beam current is set to 100 mA and the beam voltage is tuned from 15.8 kV to 16.8 kV.

Keywords

satellite communication; travelling wave tubes; CST Particle Studio; HFSS; TWT; V-band coupled-cavity traveling-wave tube; current 100 mA; frequency 56 GHz to 62 GHz; high frequency structure simulator; hot-test simulations; intersatellite communications; millimeter-wave spectrum; particle-in-cell code; power 100 W; voltage 15.8 kV to 16.8 kV; Bandwidth; Cavity resonators; Electron tubes; Gain; Impedance; Integrated circuit modeling; Power generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference Proceedings (CJMW), 2011 China-Japan Joint

Conference_Location

Hangzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0625-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-7-308-08555-7

Type

conf

Filename

5774030