Microwave Pulse Compression using Helically Corrugated Waveguides

Author

Young, A.R. ; Ronald, K. ; MacInnes, P. ; Whyte, C.G. ; Burt, G. ; He, W. ; Konoplev, I.V. ; Phelps, A.D.R. ; Cross, A.W. ; Samsonov, S.V. ; Bratman, V.L. ; Denisov, G.G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Strathclyde Univ., Glasgow

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0

fDate

0-0 0

Firstpage

555

Lastpage

556

Abstract

Cylindrical waveguide with a helical corrugation on the inner surface has proven an effective dispersive medium for the compression of smoothly frequency modulated microwave pulses. This paper presents the results of experiments where ~5.6kW, X-band (8.0GHz to 12.5GHz), microwave pulses of 80ns duration and 5% frequency modulation were compressed into 1.5ns pulses with 25 times higher peak power

Keywords

circular waveguides; helical waveguides; pulse compression; 80 ns; 80 to 12.5 GHz; X-band; cylindrical waveguide; frequency modulation; helical corrugation; helically corrugated waveguides; microwave pulse compression; Bandwidth; Dispersion; Frequency modulation; Microwave theory and techniques; Physics; Polarization; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Pulse generation; Pulse modulation; X-band; frequency swept; microwave; passive; pulse compression;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vacuum Electronics Conference, 2006 held Jointly with 2006 IEEE International Vacuum Electron Sources., IEEE International

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0108-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IVELEC.2006.1666429

Filename

1666429