Effect of digitally modulated signals on multipactor breakdown

Author

Sounas, A.L. ; Mosig, Juan R. ; Mattes, Michael

Author_Institution

Lab. of Electromagn. & Acoust. (LEMA), Ecole Polytech. Fed. de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

fYear

2013

fDate

8-12 April 2013

Firstpage

33

Lastpage

36

Abstract

This paper studies the effect of digitally modulated signals on the evolution of the multi-paction phenomenon. Multipactor is numerically analyzed in a parallel plates waveguide for a variety of common digital modulation techniques. Breakdown power thresholds and the temporal evolution of the particle population are computed. Results demonstrate that the phenomenon may be remarkably affected depending on the applied modulation scheme.

Keywords

electric breakdown; microwave switches; modulation; numerical analysis; signal processing; waveguides; breakdown power thresholds; digital modulation techniques; digitally modulated signals; microwave breakdown; multipaction phenomenon; multipactor breakdown; numerical analysis; parallel plates waveguide; temporal particle population evolution; Density measurement; Phase shift keying; Power system measurements; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Sociology; Statistics; digital modulation; microwave breakdown; multipactor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2013 7th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Gothenburg

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2187-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-88-907018-1-8

Type

conf

Filename

6546209