Wideband amplification of transient signals for application in pulse compression

Young, Alan and Whyte, Colin and Robertson, Craig and MacInnes, Philip and Phelps, Alan and Cross, Adrian and Zhang, Liang and Donaldson, Craig and Matheson, Kathleen and Ronald, Kevin; (2021) Wideband amplification of transient signals for application in pulse compression. In: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS) 2021. IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS) . IEEE, USA. ISBN 9781665432276 (https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOPS36761.2021.9588422)

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Abstract

Helically corrugated waveguide can be used as a dispersive medium to compress long duration chirping signals into higher power shorter duration microwave pulses. It has the advantage over smooth bore circular waveguide in that its dispersion can be shaped to have a large change in group velocity over a relatively small frequency range, but still be far from 'cut-off' where there is a high risk of reflection.