Suppression of self-excitation of a backward-wave traveling-wave tube by decreasing the diameter and the pitch of the slow-wave structure toward the energy output

Mathematical expressions showing that the optimum way of suppressing the self-excitation of a backward-wave traveling-wave tube is to decrease the diameter and pitch of the slow-wave structure toward the energy output are obtained. The conditions for the values of the diameter and pitch before and after the decrease are found under which the phase velocities of the minus first spatial harmonic (backward wave) are maximally different, which ensures the maximum suppression of self-excitation, and phase velocities of the zero harmonic are optimal for obtaining the maximum efficiency.     

高效率小型化行波管的二次谐波抑制

以罗埃大信号理论为基础，利用两节螺距具有正负变化的双跳变输出电路对提高宽带行波管效率的二次谐波抑制问题进行了模拟。对输出电路的跳变位置和跳变螺距进行了详细研究。模拟与测试结果证明：采用双跳变输出线路，在低频端二次谐波受到很大抑制，正向基波分量得到明显增强，在宽频带(6—18GHz)范围内，获得了均衡的饱和功率输出。     

毫米波行波管返波振荡的仿真研究

该文利用HFSS仿真了工作在Ka波段的螺旋线、反绕双螺旋线及耦合腔等慢波系统,通过傅里叶分析得到空间谐波,进而分析和比较了上述慢波系统的返波振荡特性.结果表明:螺旋线慢波系统中出现明显的角向谐波次数和轴向谐波次数不相等的窄问谐波分量,在π模附近,有产生返波振荡的危险:而反绕双螺旋线通过提高基波耦合阻抗及可工作的归一化频率来提高了抑制返波振荡的能力;为了避免返波振荡,耦合腔工作频带的选择应尽可能远离单腔相移为π,2π的频点.     

Analysis of the methods to increase the output power and frequency of the broadband TWTs

The limitations on the output power and operating frequency of the broadband TWTs resulting from a relatively low thermal stability of helix and the self-excitation at the backward wave at a operating voltage of greater than 10 kV are considered. The analysis yields the methods to overcome limitations: the application of a bifilar helix with the azimuthally conducting rings and the application of combined metal-dielectric supports that allow a simultaneous improvement of the heat removal from the helix and an increase in the TWT band. It is demonstrated that a decrease in the slowing caused by the rings and a smaller period of the bifilar helix make it possible to shift the threshold of the self-excitation at the backward wave to 30–40 kV.     

钮销支撑螺旋线慢波结构色散特性及二次谐波抑制研究

寻求频带更宽、输出功率更大、体积更小的螺旋线行波管一直是研制工作的目标,二次谐波是影响宽带行波管工作的重要因素,本文对不同形式介质加载的螺旋线慢波结构进行了模拟,并对其中色散曲线最为平坦的钮销慢波结构进行了一维大信号模拟,证明改变螺距或夹持介质形状可有效展宽带宽、降低二次谐波功率。     

A model of a diaphragmatic-waveguide traveling-wave tube

On the basis of a physical notions of the specific features of the slow-wave field distribution in the helix structure of a traveling-wave tube (TWT), various methods for controlling the amount of wave slowing and the slope of the dispersion characteristic are analyzed. The effect of the dielectric supports and correcting elements placed outside the helix is considered. In addition to the known methods for correcting dispersion through the use of a dielectric shield and longitudinally conducting elements, which weaken the interaction with the electron flow, new methods that provide both an efficient interaction with the electrons and the possibility of operation without backward-wave self-excitation at voltages higher than the voltages used with conventional helices are proposed and analyzed. With an analysis based on the equivalent-line method, it is shown that the slope of the helix dispersion characteristic can be decreased by the appropriate use of ring-shaped supports. Design solutions using the new methods of correction are considered. The history of development of ultrabroadband TWTs, including the work done in the Soviet Union on tubes with centrifugal electrostatic focusing, whose actual amplification band can be as wide as three octaves, is partially presented.     

Suppression of backward–wave oscillation by filter helix methods

An experimental study has been made of the filter helix properties of a periodically loaded helix, using a special traveling-wave tube. The filter helix is shown to possess filter-like frequency pass bands and stop bands and a phase velocity characteristic such that forward- and backward-wave phase velocities are separated, making the filter helix a useful circuit for traveling-wave amplification at high ka (ratio of helix circumference to free space wavelength) without danger of backward-wave oscillation. Certain difficulties associated with backward-wave oscillation frequency pushing were found to arise in filter helices, but useful gain was obtained at ka greater than 0.5 using filter helix techniques.     

Correction of the dispersion characteristic of a helix slow-wave structure in traveling-wave tubes

On the basis of a physical notions of the specific features of the slow-wave field distribution in the helix structure of a traveling-wave tube (TWT), various methods for controlling the amount of wave slowing and the slope of the dispersion characteristic are analyzed. The effect of the dielectric supports and correcting elements placed outside the helix is considered. In addition to the known methods for correcting dispersion through the use of a dielectric shield and longitudinally conducting elements, which weaken the interaction with the electron flow, new methods that provide both an efficient interaction with the electrons and the possibility of operation without backward-wave self-excitation at voltages higher than the voltages used with conventional helices are proposed and analyzed. With an analysis based on the equivalent-line method, it is shown that the slope of the helix dispersion characteristic can be decreased by the appropriate use of ring-shaped supports. Design solutions using the new methods of correction are considered. The history of development of ultrabroadband TWTs, including the work done in the Soviet Union on tubes with centrifugal electrostatic focusing, whose actual amplification band can be as wide as three octaves, is partially presented.     

A 20 to 40-KMC backward-wave oscillator

A 20 to 40-kmc backward-wave oscillator is described which employs a single-tape helix with a mean diameter of 0.039 inch and a length of 1.75 inch supported internally by a triangular sapphire rod. Physically, the helix is mounted in a hole drilled in the ridge of the output ridge waveguide, and a closely spaced hollow beam is located on the outside of the helix. The output from the helix passes through a short section of coaxial line to the ridge waveguide and then along this guide and through the vacuum envelope to an external mating ridge waveguide. The two sections of guide meet the envelope at an angle of 13 degrees. Output is obtained from the oscillator from 18 to 40 kmc with a voltage range of 300 to 2600 volts. The RF output varies relatively smoothly and exceeds 2 milliwatts with 5-ma collector current over the entire band from 21 to 37.5 kmc. The total variation of power over this band is 6 db. It is expected that this tube will be useful for signal-generator-type applications.     

Nonlinear Eulerian hydrodynamical analysis of helix traveling-wavetubes for harmonic generation and its control

Eulerian hydrodynamics was developed to study the nonlinear problem of second harmonic generation in a helix traveling-wave tube (TWT). A closed-form expression for the second-harmonic component of RF output power was obtained. The method required the specification of the dispersion and interaction impedance characteristics of the helical slow-wave structure (SWS) used in the device, obtainable by the field analysis of the SWS. Care was taken however to restrict the present Eulerian theory to the correct regime, which was found in terms of the RF input power drive and the device interaction length, by validating the theory against the more accurate Lagrangian theory. Within this regime, that was below the saturation level of the device, the effect of the dispersion of the SWS on the second harmonic generated in the device was studied. It was found that, irrespective of whether the dispersion of the SWS is positive or negative, the second harmonic content of the device decreased with the amount of the dispersion. Furthermore, though both the fundamental and the second harmonic content of the device decreased with the distributed loss on the SWS, the second harmonic relative to the fundamental showed a minimum at an optimum value of the distributed loss     

Simulation of nonstationary processes in backward-wave tube with the self-modulation of emission (Carcinotrode)

The equations that describe nonlinear nonstationary processes in carcinotrode (backward-wave tube with the emission modulation in the presence of the field of the output signal fed to the cathode via a feedback loop) are derived. An algorithm and the corresponding code are developed to solve the equations with allowance for the modulation of emission using nonuniform (with respect to time) large particles (electrons of equal charge) ejected from the cathode. The effect of the feedback parameter on the intensity and shape of the carcinotrode oscillations is analyzed. It is demonstrated that the carcinotrode efficiency can be increased to about 50% upon the generation of harmonic oscillations. A more significant increase in the efficiency to 70% is possible in the regime of the weak self-modulation of oscillations upon an increase in the feedback coefficient in the feedback loop involving the slow-wave structure and the cathode and a decrease in the cathode-grid static field.     

A highly linear and efficient differential CMOS power amplifier with harmonic control

A 2.45 GHz fully differential CMOS power amplifier (PA) with high efficiency and linearity is presented. For this work, a 0.18-/spl mu/m standard CMOS process with Cu-metal is employed and all components of the two-stage circuit except an output transformer and a few bond wires are integrated into one chip. To improve the linearity, an optimum gate bias is applied for the cancellation of the nonlinear harmonic generated by g/sub m3/ and a new harmonic termination technique at the common source node is adopted along with normal harmonic termination at the drain. The harmonic termination at the source effectively suppresses the second harmonic generated from the input and output. The amplifier delivers a 20.5dBm of P/sub 1dB/ with 17.5 dB of power gain and 37% of power-added efficiency (PAE). Linearity measurements from a two-tone test show that the power amplifier with the second harmonic termination improves the IMD3 and IMD5 over the amplifier without the harmonic termination by maximally 6 dB and 7 dB, respectively. Furthermore, the linearity improvements appear over a wide range of the power levels and the linearity is maintained under -45 dBc of IMD3 and -57dBc of IMD5 when the output power is backed off by more than 5dB from P/sub 1dB/. From the OFDM signal test, the second harmonic termination improves the error vector magnitude (EVM) by over 40% for an output power level satisfying the 4.6% EVM specification.     

Enhanced harmonic generation in magnetrons

An X-band rising sun harmonic-generator magnetron has been developed. In order to obtain enhanced second harmonic output power, the magnetron was designed so that the resonant frequency of the second-order π mode was twice the frequency of the first-order π mode. Second harmonic efficiency, the ratio of second harmonic output power to input power, was strongly magnetic field dependent. Large values of second harmonic efficiency and output power occurred for operation in the "valley of efficiency" of the rising sun anode, i.e., for magnetic fields near B=13,000/λ1gauss where λ1is the wavelength of the first-order π mode. Maximum second harmonic efficiency and output power at λ2=1.69 cm were 13 per cent and 46 kw, respectively. For operation at these magnetic fields the ratio of generated second harmonic to fundamental power was of the order unity. This large power ratio can be understood in terms of a phase shift between the fundamental voltage and the current which drives it, together with a modified rotating wave hypothesis where a waving motion, caused by the Γ=0 Hartree component of the azimuthal electric field, is superimposed on the conventional rotation of the space-charge spokes.     

Computer simulation of the helix traveling-wave amplifier with harmonic signals

Both fundamental and second-harmonic output powers have been computed with an axially symmetric three-dimensional model of a helix traveling-wave amplifier. They agree reasonably well with measurements. For three beam power levels, the computed transfer curves show RF drive powers consistently about 3 dB below the measured powers and saturated output powers about 2 dB below the measured values. Inaccuracies in the assumed initial beam radius, density and velocity may have caused these differences. Suppressing the second harmonic raises the computed fundamental output power by 3 dB. The model accurately reproduces a measured 11 dB dip in the second harmonic as the fundamental signal saturates.     

Velocity and current distributions in the spent beam of the backward-wave oscillator

Results are presented of an experimental study of the spent beam of a backward-wave oscillator. The instantaneous velocity and current of the spent beam are measured using a velocity analyzer built onto the collector of a scaled 80-mc backward-wave oscillator. The tube employs a sheet beam and interdigital line, 12 feet long. It is designed to be representative of large-space-charge tubes. The measured trajectories of the spent beam are examined to deduce the mechanism of interaction between the beam and the circuit along the whole length of the tube. It is deduced that the level of oscillation is determined by nonlinear effects in the convection current. Finally, the RF output efficiency saturation at high beam currents is found to be caused by electrons which fall back in phase from a retarding to an accelerating circuit field.     

Harmonic injection effects in backed-off helix travelling-wave tubes. A study by Eulerian analysis

The problem of second harmonic generation in a helix travelling-wave tube was studied by Eulerian hydrodynamical analysis. The correct regime of applicability of the Eulerian analysis, with respect to the rf input power drive and the interaction length of the device, was found a priori by validating the analysis against the more accurate Lagrangian analysis. Within this regime of applicability, which necessarily corresponds to the backed-off operation of the device, was studied the second harmonic generated in the device, with particular reference to its control by harmonic injection. In particular, the optimum values of the relative amplitude and phase of the additional second harmonic input signal relative to the main input signal were predicted for the minimum second harmonic output of the device.     

螺旋线行波管中螺距跳变幅度对输出功率的影响

通过对具有动态速度渐变（咖特性的注波互作用机理和谐波抑制技术的讨论得出了合理螺旋线的参量够提高螺旋线行波管频带内输出功率的初步结论。通过数值计算对螺距跳变幅度对输出功率影响进行了重点研究,进一步印证了初步结论。并得出了恰当的螺距跳变幅度可抑制二次谐波。增强基波,提高频带内输出功率的重要结论。所得结论为螺旋线慢波系统的设计工作的进一步开展指明了一个方向。     

Dynamics of Q-switched and mode-locked intracavity secondharmonic generation in a ring laser

The temporal dependence, spectral characteristics, and efficiency of a multimode Q-switched ring laser containing an intracavity second harmonic generator is described. Numerical studies show that such lasers are stable and efficient. Comparison with Q-switched lasers (not containing a second harmonic generator) demonstrates that the intracavity second harmonic generation lasers can be even more efficient than the fundamental laser due to nonlinear output coupling. General considerations for the operation of such lasers are described. Spectral characteristics of the output as a function of the gain of the active medium and the spectrum of the injected pulse are discussed. Instabilities at very high second harmonic conversion are observed     

An experimental study of the effects of harmonic loading onmicrowave MESFET oscillators and amplifiers

This paper reports an extensive experimental investigation of the effects of second harmonic loading on the performance of microwave GaAs MESFET oscillators; and strongly driven amplifiers. The measurement system used is an active load system based on six-port techniques. Harmonic load pull measurements were obtained for the NE72084 MESFET; the measurements show how the second harmonic load can influence the power gain and the power added efficiency in strongly driven amplifiers. The device line characterization technique was combined with the harmonic load pull technique; the measurement results illustrate how the output power and the DC to RF conversion efficiency of an oscillator depend on the choice of the second harmonic load. Amplifier and oscillator circuits have been designed using these measurements; the circuits have been constructed and measured. The results validate the experimental approach used and clearly illustrate the importance of properly selecting the second harmonic load in amplifier and oscillator circuits. Significant improvements in gain, output power and efficiency have been achieved by properly selecting the second harmonic load     

8mm二次谐波回旋速调管放大器中电子注-波互作用的研究

应用粒子模拟软件对设计的二次谐波三腔回旋速调管放大器进行了数值模拟。分析讨论了二次谐波注-波互作用过程中电子群聚的物理图景和特点，并研究了电子注电流和归一化引导中心半径对电子注-波互作用效率的影响。模拟结果表明，本文设计的二次谐波三腔回旋速调管放大器在35GHz频率可获得约293kW的峰值输出功率和约28％的电子效率。