Upgrade of a W-band gyro-TWA for cloud radar application

He, W. and Donaldson, C. R. and Zhang, L. and McElhinney, P. and Yin, H. and Garner, J. R. and Ronald, K. and Cross, A. W. and Phelps, A. D.R.; (2016) Upgrade of a W-band gyro-TWA for cloud radar application. In: IET Colloquium on Millimetre-Wave and Terahertz Engineering & Technology 2016. IET, GBR. ISBN 978-1-78561-222-0 (https://doi.org/10.1049/ic.2016.0019)

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Abstract

An existing W-band gyro-TWA is being upgraded to achieve an output power of 5 kW and a high pulse repetition rate of 2 kHz for cloud radar application. In this paper we report the latest results on the upgrade of the W-band gyro-TWA and its components. These components include input coupler, output window, corrugated output mode converter, pulsed power system and water-cooled beam dump.