Performance measurements of mode-converting corrugated horns

Donaldson, Craig R. and McElhinney, Paul and Zhang, Liang and Cross, Adrian W. and He, Wenlong; (2017) Performance measurements of mode-converting corrugated horns. In: 2017 10th UK-Europe-China Workshop on Millimetre Waves and Terahertz Technologies, UCMMT 2017. IEEE, GBR. ISBN 9781538627204

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    Abstract

    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.

    ORCID iDs

    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, Cross, Adrian W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7672-1283 and He, Wenlong ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7018-0527;
    • Item type:Book Section
      ID code:70959
      Dates:
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      Event
      13 October 2017
      Published
      16 May 2017
      Accepted
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      Keywords:two mode converting corrugated horns, gyro-amplifier, high power gyrotron-traveling wave amplifier, Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering, Instrumentation, Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Radiation
      Subjects:Technology > Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
      Department:Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Psychological Science and Health
      Depositing user: Pure Administrator
      Date deposited:18 Dec 2019 09:51
      Last modified:03 Apr 2021 00:53
      URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/70959
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