行波管关断方式对应用系统可靠性的影响

行波管在工作一段时间以后其电子枪各极间绝缘电阻可能发生变化,因此针对行波管的特点,设计出可靠的工作电源及行波管关断电路是保证武器装备可靠性的重要因素之一。在行波管电子枪极间绝缘电阻变小时,某应用系统行波管关断电路因不能使行波管完全关断,造成管体温度上升,保护电路动作,从而导致出现了雷达发射机无法及时开启的故障。文中通过对2种行波管关断方式等效电路的讨论,提出了避免应用系统故障的有效关断电路模式。     

Experimental Investigation of a Novel Circuit for Millimeter-Wave TWTs

A novel folded waveguide circuit that features thick iron pole pieces with hollow centers was built as part of a periodic-permanent-magnet-focused W-band single-stage test-vehicle traveling-wave tube (TWT). These hollow centers, which comprise part of the slow wave circuit, increase the rms axial field and significantly reduce the unwanted transverse field imbalance. For this TWT, a tetrode gun that creates an ultralaminar 20-kV 0.25-A nominal electron beam was used. It was demonstrated that this gun and magnetic structure can provide greater than 97% beam transmission for peak beam power levels as high as 9.25 kW (25 kV, 0.37 A). The unplated circuit, operating around 91 GHz on the edge of a passband, exhibits between 10 dB and 12 dB gain that compares favorably with results of device modeling utilizing the 3D particle-in-cell code Magic3D. Using a feedback approach to characterize large-signal operation, the tube generated 40 W of regenerative oscillator power. Design-optimized versions of this circuit show promise of enabling W-band TWT amplifiers that provide up to 300 W of peak RF output power     

Performance and Application of Slow Wave Circuits for Power TWT in Millimeter Wave

In millimeter wave range, high-power traveling wave tube (TWT) is a key device with broadband and high-power amplification. Basis of comparing traditional and new type slow wave circuits for high-power TWT in MMW, analysis and computation of propagating and RF performance for folded wave circuit are carried out. Theoretic calculation and experimental test show that folded wave circuit is an ideal slow wave structure for broadband and high-power TWT in MMW. There is extreme wide application for the circuit in high-power TWT. This development possesses important consult value to designer for MMW power amplifiers.     

宽频带高纯谱脉冲行波管发射机的设计

介绍一部脉冲行波管发射机的设计，重点叙述高压电源、控保电路以及栅极调制器电路的设计。最后给出发射机的频谱及RF包络的图形。     

Design and fabrication of a sub-millimeter multi-beam folded waveguide structure

A novel multi-beam folded waveguide (MBFW) circuit, which can enhance the output power and interaction efficiency of sub-terahertz (THz) traveling wave tube (TWT), is presented in the paper. Operating with fundamental mode and multiple electron beams means that a larger beam current can be used for a higher output power. The characteristics of the MBFW structure are analyzed and optimized. Compared with the single-beam folded waveguide (SBFW) TWT, the output power of the MBFW TWT increases from 3.64 W to 25.45 W at 140 GHz and its electronic efficiency increases from 1.06% to 7.4% under the conditions of an input peak power of 10 mW, a beam voltage of 9.55 kV and a current of 12 mA. The optimized MBFW structure can be successfully fabricated by micro milling, with dimension errors below expectation, and the measured transmission characteristics are in good agreement with the design.     

电磁兼容设计在某型行波管发射机中的应用

行波管发射机在现代机载雷达领域得到了广泛应用。由于机载雷达对体积的小型化要求日益严格,电路结构更加紧密,因此,电磁兼容的重要性更为突出。文章通过理论分析和工程设计,阐述电磁兼容技术在发射机设计中的应用。结合实际应用,文章具体介绍了在电源入口的防雷保护、在信号线采取的屏蔽皮接地方法、空间屏蔽和在高压回路中的安全接地与保护等电磁兼容策略,并且讨论了发射机输出信号频谱控制的常用途径。     

新型大功率毫米波螺旋线行波管高频系统研究

该文探讨了CVD金刚石材料在宽带毫米波螺旋线行波管中的应用,研究了两类非杆状新型CVD金刚石夹持的螺旋线高频结构,利用MAFIA分析了它们的色散特性、耦合阻抗和衰减常数,与传统的矩形BeO夹持杆和矩形CVD夹持杆高频结构进行了对比,最后将这两类新型高频结构替代国内某毫米波行波管(26-40GHz)中的矩形BeO夹持杆螺旋线高频结构,利用宽带大功率行波管CAD集成环境中的注波互作用模块分析了其大信号工作特性。结果表明,分立CVD金刚石夹持高频系统兼顾了超宽带和大功率,同时由于金刚石直接和螺旋线及金属翼片大面积接触,该结构还具有极好的散热能力,是一种有重要应用前景的高频结构。     

一种新型圆弧形螺旋槽慢波结构的色散特性

本文提出了一种新型的大功率行波管慢波结构－圆弧形螺旋槽系统;采用近似的场论方法,得到了该结构的色散方程;讨论了主模在其中的传播情况和系统结构参数变化对色散特性的影响。     

Linear Analysis of Traveling Wave Tubes with Nonuniform Lossy Interaction Structures

A linear theory model is developed to analyze traveling wave tubes (TWT) employing distributed wall loss. The loss can be a function of position. The electronic and circuit equation are derived, taking into account the spatial variation of the circuit loss. This model can be used to provide a first-cut design of the TWT.     

一种K波段电磁兼容测试发射机的设计

介绍了一种可用于电磁兼容测试的K波段宽带连续波行波管发射机的研制方法。主要内容包括发射机的系统构成,指标计算分配以及具体实现,重点阐述了组合高压电源、灯丝聚焦极调制器组件、阳极电源以及监控电路的设计,并对发射机的结构和热设计提出了工程解决方法。针对电磁兼容测试发射机的特点作了细致的分析,并以此为基础,研制出了一款K波段行波管发射机产品,该发射机具有体积小、重量轻和可靠性高等特点,测试结果表明,产品各项指标满足设计要求,该发射机可作为一种通用的电磁兼容设备,广泛应用于国民经济的各个领域。     

Large Signal Analysis and Computation for Millimeter Wave TWTs

The large signal operating equations are described by charge plate model in traveling wave tube (TWT). The large signal nonlinear equations have been solved by calculating inductive current of electron beam, circuit voltage exited by electron beam, beam velocity and phase affected by circuit field. The calculating results are given for Ka-band TWT in the paper.     

毫米波折叠波导行波管的研究

采用等效电路方法和电磁场仿真软件Ansoft HFSS分析了折叠波导行波管的结构参数对其高频特性的影响,并在此基础上确定了Ka波段折叠波导行波管的尺寸.利用三维非线性粒子模拟软件MAGIC3D建立了两段式折叠波导行波管的模型,模拟研究了切断区长度和位置对折叠波导行波管的饱和输出功率及第2段电路单位长度增益的影响.最后设计了一个工作于33～36GHz的两段式折叠波导行波管,其输出功率的波动小于1dB,最大连续波输出功率达670W,对应电子效率高达7.55％.     

Design of Overmoded Interaction Circuit for 1-kW 95-GHz TWT

Advanced simulation tools were used to design major components for a 95-GHz traveling-wave tube (TWT) providing approximately 1-kW of average power. This output power would be challenging, if not impossible, using a fundamental mode circuit TWT design, because of beam-current density and thermal-mechanical-stability issues. We addressed these limitations using an overmoded interaction circuit. The program investigated the circuits' thermal and electrical performance, including the effect of multiple-propagating modes and spurious oscillations. We also completed the designs for the electron gun and periodic permanent magnet. The design results for the 1-kW 95-GHz TWT are promising.     

螺旋线行波管大信号相互作用模型的改进

由于Rowe模型的能量不守恒性,使它用于实际的行波管设计时,特别是相速跃变的螺旋线行波管的设计时会产生较大的误差。本文提出的改进模型以能量守恒作为电子注和波之间的相互作用规范,所以在不计空间电荷力时,高频场的功率和电子注消耗的功率精确相等。用新模型的计算结果比用Rowe模型的更接近实际情况,特别是在变相速的设计中。     

Characterization of a low-noise linearized microwave power amplifier module

An X-band, low-noise, linearized microwave power amplifier module consisting of a low-noise solid-state amplifier (SSA), predistortion linearizing circuit, and low-gain helix traveling wave tube (TWT) is designed and tested in order to demonstrate both reduced noise figure and suppressed intermodulation distortion ratio. Two-tone intermodulation distortion (IMD) ratios are predicted from simulations obtained from modeling of the TWT, linearizing circuit, and SSA by the use of Agilent's Advanced Design System simulation code. Simulated IMD ratios are in good agreement with measured results. Measurements show a noise figure of 2.2 dB at 9.5 GHz and the third-order IMD ratio of -53 dBc at 10 dB input back off from the input P1dB point. It is found that both noise figure and IMD ratio are significantly improved compared with conventional helix-TWTs and microwave power modules.     

Novel high-gain, improved-bandwidth, finned-ladder V-bandtraveling-wave tube slow-wave circuit design

In this paper, the three-dimensional electrodynamic simulation code MAFIA (Solution of MAxwell's Equations by the Finite-Integration-Algorithm) is used to investigate methods of increasing the bandwidth and lowering the operating voltage of the ring-plane circuit. Calculations of frequency-phase dispersion, beam on-axis interaction impedance, attenuation, and small-signal gain per wavelength were performed for various geometric variations and loading distributions of the ring-plane TWT slow-wave circuit. Based on the results of the variations, a circuit termed the finned-ladder TWT slow-wave circuit was designed and is compared here to the scaled prototype ring-plane and a conventional ferruled coupled-cavity TWT circuit over the V-band frequency range. The simulation results indicate that this circuit has a much higher gain, significantly wider bandwidth, and a much lower voltage requirement than the scaled ring-plane prototype circuit, while retaining its excellent thermal dissipation properties. The finned-ladder circuit has a much larger small-signal gain per wavelength than the ferruled coupled-cavity circuit, but with a moderate sacrifice in bandwidth     

Microfabrication and Characterization of a Selectively Metallized W-Band Meander-Line TWT Circuit

Vacuum electronic devices offer significant potential for increased power and performance at millimeter-wave frequencies. However, new approaches are required to reliably manufacture the miniature electromagnetic circuits used at these high frequencies. In this paper, we describe the design, fabrication, and testing of an innovative meander-line slow-wave structure for a W-band traveling-wave tube (TWT). The unique challenge of metallizing only the top of a high-aspect-ratio serpentine dielectric ridge using conventionally planar microfabrication techniques is overcome using a novel selective masking and metallization process. The procedure is demonstrated by fabricating a W-band meander-line circuit for a 10-W continuous-wave TWT. Cold-test S -parameter measurements are presented.     

Improvement on the large signal interaction model for helix TWT

Because of the nonconservation of energy in the Rowe's model for the large signal interaction in TWTs. The Rowe's model produces considerable error in the TWT design, especially, in the design of helix TWT with velocity jump. A modified model which is based on conservation of energy is suggested to improve the accuracy of the design of TWT. By the new model, when the loss and the space-charge are neglected, the energy got by the circuit is accurately equal to that given by the electron beam. And all results obtained by the new model are more in agreement with the actual cases than those by Rowe's model.     

Ku波段高效率脉冲行波管的研制

简要介绍了Ku波段高效率脉冲行波管的设计、CAD计算和测试结果。通过对电子枪、聚焦系统、慢波电路、电子注和慢波线高频场大信号互作用的计算、收集极的设计,获得了符合新雷达系统技术指标要求的整管。实测结果为:在Ku波段2 GHz频带范围内,等激励、脉冲输出功率大于2.2 kW、效率大于30%。     

一种场效应管预失真电路对改善行波管非线性的作用

该文利用场效应管的非线性作用,替代通常预失真线性化电路中的衰减器和移相器,使这种预失真器在相位扩张量变化较小的同时,可以对增益扩张量进行调节控制,有效提升了预失真电路改善行波管非线性的作用。实际设计电路实验表明,在频率为8.38-8.58 GHz和额定输入功率范围内,设计了实际电路并完成相应的实验,获得了6 dB和45的增益和相位扩张以及15.4 dB的载波与交叉调制分量比值的改善。