An output coupler for a W-band high power wideband gyro-amplifier

McElhinney, Paul and Donaldson, Craig R. and McKay, Johannes E. and Zhang, Liang and Robertson, Duncan A. and Hunter, Robert I. and Smith, Graham M. and He, Wenlong and Cross, Adrian W. (2017) An output coupler for a W-band high power wideband gyro-amplifier. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. ISSN 0018-9383 (https://doi.org/10.1109/TED.2017.2660304)

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Abstract

An output coupler for a W-band high power wideband gyro-amplifier has been designed, manufactured and experimentally measured. It consists of a high performance sin2-parallel corrugated horn integrated with a broadband multi-layer window. The major design requirements are that the horn/window combination must have an input return loss lower than -30 dB over a 10 GHz bandwidth, provide a high quality output beam pattern, and operate under ultra-high vacuum conditions. The coupler converts a circular waveguide TE11 mode into the free space Laguerre Gaussian LG00 mode over the frequency band of 90–100 GHz with a measured return loss of between -30 and -40 dB and a simulated Gaussian coupling efficiency of over 99% at 94 GHz.

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McElhinney, Paul, Donaldson, Craig R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6627-2461, McKay, Johannes E., Zhang, Liang ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6317-0395, Robertson, Duncan A., Hunter, Robert I., Smith, Graham M., He, Wenlong ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7018-0527 and Cross, Adrian W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7672-1283;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:59719
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    16 February 2017
    Published
    16 February 2017
    Published Online
    24 January 2017
    Accepted
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    Keywords:corrugated horn, Gaussian coupling, microwave window, W-band, gyro-amplifier, high power, wideband, input return loss, Electrical Engineering. Electronics Nuclear Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
    Subjects:Technology > Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:07 Feb 2017 09:43
    Last modified:04 Dec 2022 04:02
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/59719
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