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 (https://doi.org/10.1109/UCMMT.2017.8068469)

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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.

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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, Cross, Adrian W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7672-1283 and He, Wenlong ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7018-0527;