Title :
A 1.8 kW broad band Ka-band TWT power booster
Author :
Levush, Baruch ; Abe, D. ; Chernyavskiy, Igor A. ; Cooke, Simon J. ; Vlasov, Alexander N. ; Legarra, J. ; Nguyen, Khanh ; Wright, Edward ; Cusick, M. ; Begum, R. ; Ramirez-Aldana, J. Luis ; Stockwell, B. ; Chernin, D.
Author_Institution :
Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA
Abstract :
A two stage ´driver-booster´ TWT configuration designed to produce 1.8 kW in Ka-band will be described. The folded waveguide circuit used in the power booster is designed to meet bandwidth requirements while simultaneously eliminating the usual stop-band at 2π, in order to avoid drive-induced oscillation.
Keywords :
broadband antennas; microwave tubes; millimetre wave tubes; travelling wave tubes; broad band Ka-band TWT power booster; drive-induced oscillation; folded waveguide circuit; power 1.8 kW; two stage driver-booster TWT configuration; Bandwidth; Circuit stability; Impedance matching; Oscillators; Passband; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Ka-band; power booster; stability; stop band;
Conference_Titel :
Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC), 2013 IEEE 14th International
Conference_Location :
Paris
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5976-4
DOI :
10.1109/IVEC.2013.6571001
