Design and simulation of a 0.37 THz gyro-TWA

Zhang, Liang and Donaldson, Craig R. and He, Wenlong and Ronald, Kevin and Phelps, Alan D. R. and Cross, Adrian W. (2019) Design and simulation of a 0.37 THz gyro-TWA. In: 12th UK-Europe-China Workshop on Millimetre Waves and THz Technologies (UCMMT 2019), 2019-08-20 - 2019-08-22, Queen Mary University of London.

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Abstract

This paper reports the work being carried out to realize a gyrotron-traveling wave amplifier operating at 372 GHz based on a helically corrugated interaction region (HCIR). The high magnetic field will be provided through a cryo-free superconducting magnet. There are many components in the waveguide circuit, which must achieve very low reflection targets. The design and simulation results of the gyro-TWA, the cusp electron beam source, the sub-millimetre wave components, as well as measurement of the HCIR will be presented in this paper.