1. Investigation of Sine Groove Waveguide Slow Wave Structure for Terahertz Traveling Wave Tube.
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Lu, Zhigang, Wen, Ruidong, Wang, Zhanliang, Gong, Huarong, and Gong, Yubin
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TRAVELING-wave tubes ,SLOW wave structures ,TERAHERTZ materials ,COPLANAR waveguides ,SUBMILLIMETER waves - Abstract
A novel sine groove waveguide slow wave structure (SGW-SWS), originated from the sine waveguide (SW), is proposed for a wideband terahertz (THz) traveling wave tube (TWT). SGW-SWS not only has high interaction impedance in a relatively wide frequency band, but also has a wide beam tunnel. In addition, it can be fabricated using the Nano-Computer Numerical Control (CNC) milling techniques. The high-frequency simulation results show that, under the same dispersion, the passband of SGW-SWS is 23 GHz wider than that of SW-SWS, and the average interaction impedance of SGW-SWS is higher than that of SW-SWS in the whole passband. And the transverse dimension of beam tunnel is independent of the dispersion characteristics of SGW-SWS, so the beam current can be further increased by enlarging the size of beam tunnel. Moreover, the particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation results reveal that the saturated power and electronic efficiency of SGW-TWT in the frequency range of 201–260 GHz are more than 84.9 W and 2.72%, respectively, when the operating voltage is 20.8 kV and the beam current is 150 mA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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