Frequency Sources in W-band Radar Front-end with Low Phase Noise

A W-band coherent stepped-frequency pulsed radar front-end is developed. It consists of a millimetre wave transmitting source, a mm-wave local source, a DDS with multi frequency points output and two microwave sources serving as local oscillators. All the sources are coherent with the 120 MHz referenced crystal oscillator. The mm-wave sources are realized by frequency multiplier chain, up-conversion and injection locking. The phase noise of fundamental-wave injection-locked W-band harmonic Gunn oscillator output signal achieves −98 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz offset and the spurious output is less than −50 dBc. The received intermediate frequency signal is also presented.     

同轴虚阴极振荡器数值模拟

 给出了同轴型虚阴极振荡器的数值模拟和部分理论分析结果, 指出许多几何结构参数包括阴极宽度、二极管间隙等都对输出微波的频率、带宽和能量转换效率有较大的影响。给出了这些参量之间关系的数值模拟结果，在一定程度上为同轴虚阴极振荡器的实验研究提供了理论基础。     

Explosive cathode gyrotron experiments

Experiments have investigated the behavior of explosive emission cathode gyrotrons using cylindrically symmetric coaxial diodes with centrally located knife-edged cathode and conical anode. Voltage probes and current shunts were exploited to monitor the diode electrical behavior when driven by a 3 μs 1/e time Marx power supply (up to 150 kV). Temporal reference signals permitted comparison of the diode's electrical evolution with the simultaneously measured microwave output signal from the gyrotron. The microwave output pulse duration was found to depend on the diode gap spacing (in the range 16-27 mm), the cavity magnetic field (range 1.3-3.3 T) and the cathode material, the termination being caused by the decay of the accelerating potential across the diode and the disruption of the diode geometry. The ratios of the cathode flare expansion velocities for graphite, copper and stainless steel cathodes were estimated as (1:(1.3±0.2):(2.2±0.5)) with a corresponding change in the duration of the microwave output signal [((590±17):(414±25):(325±10)) ns at 2.6 T]. Preliminary results are reported of recent experiments which have compared the optical emissions from the diode region during pulsed gyrotron operation with the simultaneously recorded diode electrical behavior and the gyrotron microwave output     

脉冲微波激发氢原子Ramsey干涉研究

该文开展利用Ramsey干涉现象设计被动型氢原子钟的可行性研究. 该方案的核心是用脉冲微波激励氢原子发生共振跃迁. 通过理论计算确定了关键参数,研制了脉冲微波发生电路. 利用现有的被动型氢原子钟的物理部分,成功观察到氢原子共振跃迁的Ramsey干涉,将原子跃迁谱线宽度从原来的3 Hz压缩至1.2 Hz. 这为进一步提高被动型氢原子钟的稳定度指标提供了一种新思路.     

全固态高重复频率LTD的性能测试和特性分析

全固态直线型变压器驱动源(LTD)是具有独特性能的新型高重频脉冲功率发生器。针对LTD的基础特性进行了较详细的实验研究。测量内容包括输出脉冲宽度与控制信号的关联、LTD模块上的信号延迟及其分散性，以及不同条件下LTD系统的能量效率分析。实验结果使我们对LTD取得了更加详细和深入的认识，同时为进一步改善和提高LTD脉冲功率发生器的技术水平提供了重要的参考数据。     

Wave front reversal of surface magnetostatic waves

The wave front reversal (WFR) of non-reciprocal waves has been investigated. The experiment was performed using surface magnetostatic waves (SMSW) excited by a pulsed microwave signal of the carrier frequency ∼4.7 GHz in an epitaxial yttrium–iron garnet (YIG) film. The WFR was realized by pulsed parametric pumping of a double frequency. It was shown that WFR with high efficiency can be achieved for SMSW having relatively small wavenumbers k∼10² rad/cm.     

真空二极管大功率微波检波器设计

基于真空二极管设计了一种X波段大功率微波检波器,该检波器主要由真空二极管、BJ-100波导、调谐螺栓、低通滤波器和直流电源组成,其工作频率可根据需要在8.6~9.8GHz范围内调谐。重点阐述该型大功率微波检波器的结构设计、实验室标定及辐射场测量实验结果,研究了不同脉宽和不同灯丝电压与检波特性的依赖关系。实验结果表明:该型检波器具有承受微波脉冲功率高(大于7kW)、响应快(响应时间小于2.0ns)、动态范围大、输出信号幅度高(可达数十V)、不需要同步信号等特点,适用于在高功率微波干扰环境下的单次和高重复频率脉冲功率测量。     

Experimental investigation of a compact relativistic magnetron with axial TE₁₁ mode radiation

As one of the relativistic electron tubes having compact configuration and high efficient output,the relativistic magnetron with direct axial radiation is very attractive in pulsed power and high power microwave fields for industrial and military applications.In this paper,the experimental investigation of a relativistic magnetron with axial TE 11 mode radiation is reported.Under a total length of ～ 0.3 m,volume of ～ 0.014 m 3,working at an applied voltage of 508 kV and a magnetic field of ～ 0.31 T,the relativistic magnetron radiates a microwave of 540 MW with the TE 11 mode at 2.35 GHz in the axial direction.The power conversion efficiency is 15.0%.After a lot of shots,the detected amplitudes of microwaves are nearly the same.The fluctuations of wave amplitudes are less than 0.3 dB.     

Development of the relativistic backward wave oscillator with a permanent magnet

Firstly, an X-band relativistic backward wave oscillator with a low guiding magnetic field is simulated, whose output microwave power is 520 MW. Then, an experiment is carried out on an accelerator to investigate a relativistic backward wave oscillator with a permanent magnetic field whose strength is 0.46 T. When the energy of the electron is 630 keV and the current of the electron beam is 6.7 kA, a 15 ns width pulsed microwave with 510 MW output power at 8.0 GHz microwave frequency is achieved.     

Polarization of atoms by simultaneous electromagnetic pulses of different frequency ranges

A method is proposed for the fast and deep polarization of a system of ground-state hyperfine sublevels of an atom having an optical excited level or a system of excited-state sublevels. The method is based on the simultaneous action of pulsed bichromatic resonance fields of optical and microwave ranges. The scheme of the ground-state sublevel polarization by bichromatic or monochromatic microwave fields is also considered.     

Modeling the recorded spectrum and reconstructing the transfer function of the wideband ionospheric HF radio channel in the case of chirp sounding

We model theoretically the received spectrum in the case of sounding of the ionospheric HF radio channel by a chirp signal. It is shown that the result of processing of an individual time sample of the received signal is equivalent to the sounding of the radio channel by a complex narrow-band pulsed signal such that the group delays of its propagation modes determine the maxima in the received spectrum. We analyze the quadrature components of realizations of the received signal at the intermediate frequency at the bandpass-filter output in the receiving channel of the chirp ionosonde. The results of our analysis show the possibility of reconstructing the transfer function of a HF radio channel in the sounding-frequency band for the delay range determined by the characteristics of the intermediate-frequency bandpass filter. We propose a method for reconstructing the transfer function of the ionospheric radio channel, which involves supplementing the circuit of primary processing of the signal by a corrective digital filter with specified amplitude-frequency and phase-frequency characteristics. The proposed method can be used for all operating regimes of the chirp ionosonde in the case of digital recording and processing of signals. __________ Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 50, No. 5, pp. 387–395, May 2007.     

Direction finding and suppression of vector-scalar sound signals in shallow water taking into account their correlation and mode structure

The correlation of low-frequency sound signals from towed tonal low-frequency sources at the output of the scalar and vector channels is studied in shallow water. The correlation of the scalar field and signal received by a horizontally oriented vector receiver on average is 0.92–0.99; correlation with the signal received by a vertical vector receiver decreases to 0.66–85. When scalar fields or horizontal projections of the vibration velocity vector with application of the aperture synthesis algorithm are used, 3–5 normal waves are isolated; when the vertical component is used, 7–9 modes. It is demonstrated that the high signal correlation ensures direction-finding accuracy and suppression of strongly noise-emitting moving sources by 20–30 dB or more if the cardioid is directed at the source according to the zone of the minimum.     

Fluctuations of noiselike signals reflected from a rough surface at the output of a correlation receiver

The frequency and time averaging of the fluctuations that occur in the cross-correlation function of a radiated noiselike acoustic signal with the signal received after its reflection from a rough water surface is considered. The variance and temporal correlation function are calculated for the output effect of a correlation receiver for different ratios between the averaging time and the time correlation interval of fluctuations, the band width of the radiated signal, and the frequency correlation interval of the transfer function fluctuations.     

Increase in the average radiation power of a plasma relativistic microwave generator

The operation of a pulse-periodic plasma relativistic microwave generator with a pulsed power of 50 MW was experimentally studied. A change in the shapes of the electron collector and output unit allowed a significant increase in the average emission power. The microwave pulse duration was increased from 30 to 70 ns, and the repetition rate of microwave pulses was increased from 5 to 50 Hz.     

Testing a thermoacoustic sensor of high-power microwave pulses

We present the results of testing a new thermoacoustic sensor designed to detect microwave pulses having durations from 3 to 120 ns at wavelengths of 0.8 and 3 cm. Operation of the sensor is based on the effect of generation of acoustic signals during absorption of microwave pulses in a radiotransparent substrate–absorber–liquid layered structure . A thin nanometer-thick film deposited on a substrate is used as an absorber. Microwaves are converted to an acoustic pulse in the film and the adjacent liquid. The pulse is received by a wideband acoustic receiver and then recorded by a digital oscilloscope. It is shown that for a pulse duration of 120 ns, the shape of the signal recorded by the thermoacoustic sensor completely corresponds to the signal of a tube-diode detector of microwave pulses. The response of the thermoacoustic sensor to shorter pulses (3 and 5 ns long) is a pulse with a duration of 18 ns which is determined by a limited frequency band of the acoustic receiver.     

Experimental investigation of a compact relativistic magnetron with axial TE11 mode radiation

As one of the relativistic electron tubes having compact configuration and high efficient output, the relativistic magnetron with direct axial radiation is very attractive in pulsed power and high power microwave fields for industrial and military applications. In this paper, the experimental investigation of a relativistic magnetron with axial TE11 mode radiation is reported. Under a total length of - 0.3 m, volume of - 0.014 m3, working at an applied voltage of 508 kV and a magnetic field of - 0.31 T, the relativistic magnetron radiates a microwave of 540 MW with the TE11 mode at 2.35 GHz in the axial direction. The power conversion efficiency is 15.0%. After a lot of shots, the detected amplitudes of microwaves are nearly the same. The fluctuations of wave amplitudes are less than 0.3 dB.     

基于纠缠见证的路径纠缠微波检测方法

提出了一种基于纠缠见证的路径纠缠微波信号检测方法.路径纠缠微波是微波频段上的连续变量纠缠,介绍了利用微波压缩态和微波分束器制备路径纠缠微波的方法.根据部分转置正定判据以及2?2纠缠态密度矩阵的部分转置具有负本征值的性质,分别对常见的两种2?2纠缠进行了纠缠见证算符的构造,用于对两路信号是否为纠缠态进行判定.将连续变量纠缠的路径纠缠微波分解为大量2?2纠缠子系统叠加的纠缠态,证明其能够利用所构造的2?2纠缠见证算符来检测路径纠缠微波.同时分析了微波分束器的作用,并利用微波分束器设计了一种用于检测路径纠缠微波信号的实验方案,并在理论上分析了纠缠检测所得到的结果.结果表明,该方法能够有效检测路径纠缠微波信号,降低了检测的复杂度和计算量.本文的研究为纠缠微波的检测提供了思路.     

Analysis of pulsed-signal transmission in a system of interacting neural oscillators with frequency-dependent connections

In this paper, we study the influence of the frequency-dependent connection on the signal transmission in a system of two interacting pulsed neural oscillators. The system is a model of two neurons with synaptic connection having the synaptic-plasticity feature, i.e., synaptic-parameter variation as a function of the frequency characteristics of the signal. It is shown that plastic connection can control the signal-transmission efficiency depending on the pulse-repetition rate and ensures stable synchronization modes of the pulse trains with different ratios between the frequencies of the output and input pulses. Analytical estimates for the parameter ranges corresponding to generation of the pulse response at the detector neuron depending on the pulse-repetition rate at the oscillator neuron were obtained.     

Fourier-transform EPR at high-field/high-frequency (3.4 T/95 GHz) using broadband stochastic microwave excitation

Stochastic excitation with a full-width-half-maximum bandwidth of 250 MHz was used to perform Fourier-transform (FT) high-field/high-frequency electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) at 3.4T/95 GHz (W-band). Thereby, the required microwave peak power is reduced by a factor of tau(p)/T1 as compared to equivalent pulsed FT EPR in which the spin system with spin-lattice relaxation time T1 is excited by a single microwave pulse of length tau(p). Stochastic EPR is particularly interesting under high-field/high-frequency conditions, because the limited output power of mm microwave sources, amplifiers, and mixers makes pulse FT EPR in that frequency domain impossible, at least for the near future. On the other hand, FT spectroscopy offers several advantages compared to field-swept magnetic resonance methods, as is demonstrated by its success in NMR and X-band EPR. In this paper we describe a novel stochastic W-band microwave bridge including a bimodal induction mode transmission resonator that serves for decoupling the microwave excitation and signal detection. We report first EPR measurements and discuss experimental difficulties as well as achieved sensitivity. Moreover, we discuss future improvements and the possibility for an application of stochastic W-band FT EPR to transient signals such as those of photoexcited radical pairs in photosynthetic reaction centers.     

相对论返波管注入锁相的数值模拟

给出了一种基于梯形慢波结构的相对论返波管结构,并采用2.5维全电磁PIC粒子模拟软件对其前端注入锁相进行了模拟研究。注入功率从二极管区注入相对论返波管中,注入功率50 kW,注入比$48.3dB时,返波管输出的相位抖动在±20°范围内,并拟合了返波管相位抖动与注入功率之间关系,给出了判断返波管相位抖动大小的经验公式。注入功率提高至120 MW,注入比$14.5 dB时,注入信号对相对论返波管输出的频率实现了牵引。