X波段大功率行波管新型慢波结构的分析.pdfVIP

ABSTRACT ABSTRACT The traveling-wave tubes (TWTs) are kinds of important electronic devices. These are microwave amplifiers that are used immensely in satellite communications and military radar systems. TWTs mainly include coupled-cavity traveling-wave tubes (CC-TWTs) and helix TWTs. Though the traveling wave tubes based on coupled-cavity slow wave structure have much smaller bandwidth than the helix TWT, however, for many radar applications, they are absolutely sufficient. Coupled-cavity slow-wave structure (SWS) is made of metal. They have a lot of advantages such as strong strucyural and good heat dissipation. Due to the excellent performance in power capacity, the high power coupled-cavity TWT are still very interesting research subjects. In this paper, we present the design of a high power SWS: X-band CC-TWT with a novel ridge-loaded staggered single-slot rectangular slow wave structure. Compared with the traditional Hughes-type circular coupled cavity TWT, a series of rectangular coupled cavity TWT were investigated because they have the advantage of easy fabrication and assembly, which is considerably practical in design of millimeter wave TWT. Compared with the existing double-slot rectangular coupled cavity TWT, our designed TWT has the advantage in coupled impedance and electron efficiency, which has the potential of miniaturization in CC-TWT. In this paper, the main work are as follows: 1. The dispersion and coupling impedance of the new SWS has been simulated so that the influence of various structural dimensions of high-frequency characteristics can be summar