Measurement of a W-band output launcher system for a broadband gyro-TWA

Donaldson, Craig R. and McElhinney, Paul and Zhang, Liang and He, Wenlong (2017) Measurement of a W-band output launcher system for a broadband gyro-TWA. In: 18th International Vacuum Electronics Conference, IVEC 2017, 2017-04-24 - 2017-04-26, London. (https://doi.org/10.1109/IVEC.2017.8289673)

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Abstract

An output system for a W-band (90-100 GHz) gyrotron-traveling wave amplifier is designed, simulated, measured and the results are presented. This is an updated system based on a previous design and the output shows more favorable properties for the amplifiers intended application, as a millimetre wave source in a cloud sensing radar. A greater than -30 dB reflection was measured over the frequency range and high Gaussian content obtained.

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Donaldson, Craig R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6627-2461, McElhinney, Paul, Zhang, Liang ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6317-0395 and He, Wenlong ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7018-0527;