Microfabricated, high power millimeter wave amplifiers at G-band

Author

Joye, Colin D. ; Cook, Alan M. ; Calame, Jeffrey P. ; Abe, David K. ; Nguyen, Khanh T. ; Vlasov, Alexander N. ; Chernyavskiy, Igor A. ; Wright, Edward L. ; Pershing, Dean E. ; Levush, Baruch

Author_Institution

U.S. Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

14-19 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We present the demonstration of the first traveling wave tube circuit fabricated using ultraviolet photolithography. The complete amplifier demonstrated over 60 W output power at 214.5 GHz with 15 GHz bandwidth in the small signal regime at 14 dB gain. A high-gain 233 GHz amplifier is now under development and predicted to reach over 100 W output power. We present several microfabrication advancements that will be utilized to create the new device.

Keywords

microfabrication; millimetre wave amplifiers; photolithography; power amplifiers; travelling wave amplifiers; travelling wave tubes; bandwidth 15 GHz; frequency 214.5 GHz; frequency 233 GHz; gain 14 dB; high power millimeter wave amplifiers; microfabricated; power 60 W; traveling wave tube circuit; ultraviolet photolithography; Bandwidth; Electron tubes; Gain; Laser beams; Microfabrication; Power amplifiers; Power generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz), 2014 39th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tucson, AZ

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IRMMW-THz.2014.6956453

Filename

6956453