Microwave pulse compression using helically corrugated waveguides

Young, Alan and Ronald, Kevin and Macinnes, Philip and Whyte, Colin and Burt, G and He, Wenlong and Konoplev, Ivan and Phelps, Alan and Cross, Adrian and Samsonov, S.V. and Bratman, V.L. and Denisov, G.G.; (2006) Microwave pulse compression using helically corrugated waveguides. In: 2006 IEEE International vacuum electronics conference held jointly with 2006 IEEE international vacuum electron sources. IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference IVEC . IEEE, USA, pp. 555-556. ISBN 1424401089 (https://doi.org/10.1109/IVELEC.2006.1666429)

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Abstract

Cylindrical waveguide with a helical corrugation on the inner surface has proven an effective dispersive medium for the compression of smoothly frequency modulated microwave pulses. This paper presents the results of experiments where similar to 5.6kW X-band (8.0GHz to 12.5GHz), microwave pulses of 80ns duration and 5% frequency modulation were compressed into 1.5ns pulses with 25 times higher peak power.