金属柱平板慢波系统高频特性研究

对于离散的金属柱结构构建的周期性平板慢波系统,本文利用3维FDTD方法结合HFSS仿真软件深入分析了该慢波系统的高频特性.研究了金属柱高度、周期长度对色散特性的影响,计算了耦合阻抗,并与传统光栅慢波系统特性进行了对比分析.分析表明金属柱慢波系统既有与传统光栅慢波系统相似的高频特性,又具有独自的特点,位于离散的金属柱周期间隙中的电子注互作用耦合阻抗具有对称性;金属柱结构用作真空电子器件的高频系统可增加发生有效互作用的电子注厚度,降低起振电流密度,提高器件效率.本文的分析结果为设计低电流密度工作的多电子注短毫关键词：金属柱平板慢波系统3维FDTD算法色散特性耦合阻抗

Study of high frequency characteristics of metallic-pole-planar slow wave structure

The discrete metallic-pole-planar slow wave structure (SWS) is introduced in this paper, and the high frequency characteristics are studied. And procedures based on three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain (3-D FDTD) arithmetic are used to calculate the dispersive characteristics of the new SWS, and HFSS simulation software is used to analyze the coupling impedance. Results show the high frequency characteristics of the pole structure not only have a general similarity in comparison with these of the grating, but also have itself advantages. For the electrons moving between multiple poles of the structure, the interaction impedances are symmetry; relatively thick electron beams can efficiently interact with the high-frequency field while it used as the high frequency system of vacuum electronic devices. This kind of SWS is promising to lower the starting current density and have better efficiency than the traditional grating SWS. According to the results, a sub-millimeter radiation source driven by the multiple beams can be designed at a low operating current density.