Performance measurements of mode-converting corrugated horns

Autor: Lei Zhang, Wenlong He, Adrian W. Cross, Craig R. Donaldson, Paul McElhinney
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: 2017 10th UK-Europe-China Workshop on Millimetre Waves and Terahertz Technologies (UCMMT).
DOI: 10.1109/ucmmt.2017.8068469
Popis: This paper presents the design, simulation and measurement of two mode converting corrugated horns for application as the output launcher for a gyro-amplifier. Operating over the 90 to 100 GHz frequency range the horns act to convert the TE11 mode to the Gaussian-like HE11 mode. The difference in the horns is one was made initially to meet a more moderate Gaussian content specification while the other was improved to meet stricter criteria on Guassian content as-well-as being vacuum tight and compatible with integration with a broadband multi-layer vacuum window. The results are presented and show that in both cases the measured results agree well with simulated values and ultimately the second horn was demonstrated to be a good candidate to be tested on a gyrotron amplifier.
Databáze: OpenAIRE