8 mm二次谐波回旋速调管谐振腔设计研究

 结合回旋速调管研究的相关理论,考虑到高次谐波工作时带来的模式竞争,以及注-波互作用的耦合关系,讨论了在半径、腔长、杂模抑制以及腔内媒质涂层的介电参量等诸多因数影响的情况下,如何设计二次谐波回旋速调管谐振腔的问题。结合设计方法建模,优化设计出了5个适于8 mm二次谐波工作的谐振腔,通过漂移段连接成两种高频结构,其中一种结构在注-波互作用非线性模拟中取得了251 kW的输出功率,电子效率 23.9%,增益 27.2 dB,3 dB带宽大于0.4%;另一种结构初步取得了246 kW的输出功率,其它参数正在测试之中。     

Preliminary Design of a Ka-Band Second Harmonic Gyroklystron Amplifier

The preliminary design of a Ka-band, second harmonic, three cavities gyroklystron amplifier is presented. The beam-wave interaction in the second harmonic gyroklystron amplifier is studied by using a particle-in-cell code, and the validity of the design of the microwave circuit is also discussed. The results show that this gyroklystron can produce an output peak power of over 200kW with 20dB gain and 20% maximum efficiency at 35GHz.     

Kα波段TE01模基波回旋速调放大器的设计与实验

在回旋速调放大器自洽非线性大信号理论分析和数值计算的基础上,给出了一支Kα波段TE₀₁模4腔基波回旋速调放大器的设计方案,并完成了样管的研制.同时对样管进行了热测实验,得到了如下实验结果:注电压为70 kV,电流为10 A,输入功率为60 W,磁场强度1.31 T,中心频率34 GHz,峰值功率245 kW,平均功率大于3 kW,增益36.1 dB,效率 35%,3 dB带宽大于280 MHz. 关键词： 回旋速调放大器 注-波互作用 群聚腔 输入腔     

回旋速调管放大器注-波互作用分析

 给出了自洽非线性大信号理论分析方法,在理论分析和高频计算的基础上,建立了回旋速调管放大器注-波互作用计算模型,对其进行数值计算。研究多种参量对放大器输出功率、增益、效率等的影响,通过优化得到了中心频率34 GHz的四腔回旋速调管放大器设计方案。粒子模拟表明：在工作电压65 kV,注电流8 A,电子注横向与纵向速度比为1.5时,输出功率230 kW,带宽230 MHz,电子效率45%,饱和增益33 dB。     

Analysis and Numerical Calculations of the Beam-Wave Interaction for Gyroklystron Amplifiers

A four-cavity gyroklystron was designed and optimized after analysis and calculation of RF system and magnetron injection gun, numerical simulations showed that the TE₀₁₁ mode gyroklystron achieved 280kW peak output power, 38% efficiency, 35dB saturated gain with 250Mhz bandwidth centered at 34GHz for a 68 kV, 11A electron beam. The numerical simulation results were used to build a Ka band high power gyroklystron amplifier. In this paper, analysis and numerical calculation results of the beam-wave interaction are presented. The influences of electron beam, RF system parameters, magnetic field, and input RF signal on output power, efficiency, bandwidth and gain are discussed.     

Study of high-power Ka-band second-harmonic gyroklystron amplifier

The self-consistent nonlinear theory of two-cavity high-harmonic gyroklystron amplifier has been developed. The efficiency and gain of a second-harmonic gyroklystron were calculated numerically. The results obtained were used to choose the optimal parameters of the experimental second-harmonic tube. The experimental study was carried out to test high-harmonic amplifier concept. Two-cavity 35 GHz second harmonic gyroklystron with the TE₀₂₁ cavity mode has been designed and tested in pulse operation. Output power of about 260 kW with efficiency 18% and 17 dB gain have been produced at 72 kV beam voltage and 20 A beam current. Bandwidth of about 0.1% has been observed. The restriction of the output power, efficiency, and gain was caused by spurious oscillations excited in the second cavity in the TE₀₁₁ mode at the fundamental cyclotron frequency     

Ka波段二次谐波回旋速调管放大器的输出特性

 根据谐波回旋速调管放大器的注-波互作用特点,对Ka波段二次谐波三腔回旋速调管放大器的输出腔进行了数值模拟和优化设计,获得了输出腔末端高频波绕射输出孔径和腔体绕射Q值的对应关系。通过PIC粒子模拟,分析了该放大器的频率响应特点等输出特性。结果表明,在35 GHz频率,磁场0.685 T,电子注电压70 kV,电流15 A,横纵速度比为1.45,输入功率1.6 kW时,放大器可以获得超过220 kW的峰值输出功率、约22%的效率和23 dB的增益,3 dB带宽可达到110 MHz。     

An Iron-Free Magnetron-Injection-Gun for a 28GHz, 200kW Gyroklystron Amplifier

A design study of a double-anode magnetron-injection-gun is performed to incorporate the electron gun into a high power 28GHz gyroklystron amplifier operating at 70kV and 8.2A. The electron gun is designed to be used in a tapered magnetic field in the cathode region produced from an iron-free superconducting magnet. An electron trajectory code predicts a beam axial velocity spread of 5.9% at = 1.5, 70kV, 8.2A and 10.4kG, which is a high quality electron beam suitable for the high gain, high efficiency, five-cavity gyroklystron amplifier. The successful design of the high quality electron gun is attributed to a longer gap between the modulating anode and the grounded anode compared with the case of the first 28GHz electron gun built with an iron enclosed electromagnet.     

低反射低吸收高平均功率输出窗的设计

 对高平均功率微波、毫米波输出窗的反射和吸收功率进行了理论分析，以蓝宝石输出窗为例，给出了低反射、低吸收的高平均功率回旋速调管放大器输出窗的设计方案。该放大器输出窗厚度为1.35mm，半径为9mm，工作频率为34GHz，在加工误差小于2%的情况下，输出窗反射率小于1%，当平均输出功率为10kW时窗片的吸收功率为2.5W。     

A 30-MW Gyroklystron-Amplifier Design for High-Energy Linear Accelerators

Microwave tubes required to drive future 1-TeV linear colliders have challenging requirements, including 300-MW peak power at wavelengths near 3 cm. It is believed that gyrotrons have good potential for development into the high peak power, high gain, efficient amplifier required for this application. Presented here is the detailed design for a 3-cm gyroklystron amplifier at a peak power level of ~ 30 MW. This power level is approximately three orders of magnitude above the gyroklystron state of the art, and a 30-MW experimental study will be a crucial step toward achieving the 300-MW goal. Novel problems associated with a high-energy (? ~ 2) gyrotron beam are considered in detail. A new partially self-consistent nonlinear analysis is described and subsequently used to design the gyroklystron circuit. Based on the TE011 mode in cavities of circular cross section, stable operation is anticipated; the current is well below the threshold at which an unbunched electron beam would excite oscillations in the cavities and the drift spaces are designed to heavily load modes which are not cut off.     

Millimeter-wave gyroklystron amplifier experiment using arelativistic electron beam

A fundamental-mode TE₁₁₁° two-cavity intense-beam gyroklystron amplifier experiment, operating at an accelerating voltage of 1 MV, is reported. The two cavities that were tested are designed to serve as bunching cavities for a high-power output cavity. The two-cavity amplifier has demonstrated a linear gain of 15 dB and an unsaturated output power of ~40 kW, with the intracavity gain and power ~4 dB higher. The frequency of the second cavity has been found to track the frequency of the driven cavity over a range of 300 MHz around a center frequency of 35 GHz. Stable amplifier operation was achieved with beam currents as large as 150 A and a velocity pitch ratio of 0.36. The stable operating range was limited by spurious oscillation in the TE₁₁₂° mode. Theoretical calculations indicate that higher gains might be attainable if this mode could be suppressed     

Design and Performnance of a Three-Cavity Gyroklystron Amplifier

The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is investigating the gyroklystron amplifier (GKA) concept. The purpose of this program is to assess GKA characteristics in order to determine if such a device is capable of achieving the high efficiency, gain, and output power predicted by numerous studies. The first in a series of tubes to examine GKA behavior has been fabricated and is currently under testing. This tube utilizes three rectangular cavities operating in the TE101 mode. Design goals included 100-kW output power, 30-percent efficiency, 40-dB gain, and operation at a center frequency of 4.5 GHz. Test results have shown reasonable agreement with theoretical predictions. In particular, efficiencies as high as 33 percent have been observed with a saturated output power of 52 kW. Bandwidths of 0.4 percent have been measured. In addition, the device can be operated under certain conditions as a phase-locked oscillator. These results suggest that the desirable characterstics which have been predicted for the GKA can be realized with a microwave tube.     

Experimental studies of a gyroklystron operating in the field of a permanent magnet

We have developed and tested a gyroklystron operating with the second harmonic of the electron cyclotron frequency at a frequency of 32.3 GHz in the field of a permanent magnet. In the two-and three-cavity versions of the gyroklystron, the peak power of the output radiation reached 320 kW with an efficiency of 30%, an amplification coefficient of 20–25 dB, and an operating frequency bandwidth of 0.05%. In the wide-band version of the gyroklystron, the amplification bandwidth was equal to 0.27% for an output power of 200 kW and an amplification coefficient of 13 dB.     

8 mm二次谐波回旋速调管非线性分析

 对8 mm二次谐波回旋速调管中的注-波互作用,进行了PIC模拟计算,得到了高频结构尺寸、电子注参数、聚焦磁场等参数对输出功率、效率和增益的影响规律。在磁场系数0.511 8,电子注电压70 kV,电子注电流约16 A,输入功率约80 W时,得到约430 kW的输出功率,电子转化效率38%,超过37 dB的增益,3 dB带宽超过210 MHz。     

重复运行短脉冲S波段相对论速调管放大器

介绍了利用HVG-1二极管产生的强流短脉冲电子束源, 开展短脉冲重复频率为100Hz的S波段相对论速调管放大器(RKA)实验研究. 利用无箔空心石墨阴极和0.82T的恒流源引导磁场, 引出了电压约700kV、电流约6.5kA、脉宽(半高宽)25ns的环形电子束. 该电子束经过输入腔和中间腔的调制后, 得到了5kA/22ns的 基波调制电流. 经过输出腔后, 得到了大于1GW/20ns的辐射微波, 频率2.95GHz, 平均功率2.4kW, 效率约24%, 增益34dB. 没有观察到限制该GW级功率水平的S波段RKA的因素.     

70 GHz二次谐波倍频回旋速调管研究

 对70 GHz二次谐波倍频回旋速调管高频结构和电子与波互作用进行了研究。研究了TE02模腔体绕射品质因数及模式转化,解决了二次谐波倍频回旋速调管漂移段不能截止70 GHz的TE01模而引起的腔体间高频串扰的问题。分析了注电流、输入功率、电子横纵速度比和电子注引导中心半径等参数对输出功率、增益和效率的影响。针对二次谐波回旋速调管放大器工作频带窄、效率低,进行了高频结构优化设计,显著地展宽了工作频带,提高了互作用效率。在理论分析和高频计算的基础上,建立了注-波互作用PIC（粒子模拟）模型,进行了粒子模拟计算和优化,得到了70 GHz 的二次谐波倍频四腔回旋速调管放大器设计方案。粒子模拟结果表明：在工作电压70 kV,注电流13 A,电子注横向速度与纵向速度比为1.5时,中心频率69.81 GHz输出功率256 kW,带宽160 MHz,电子效率28%,饱和增益大于44 dB。     

回旋速调管注-波互作用非线性理论研究

 利用自洽非线性理论对回旋速调管放大器中的电子注-波互作用进行了时域瞬态分析,建立了多腔回旋速调管非线性理论,给出了相应的电子运动方程和复数形式的互作用瞬态场方程。给出并分析了一支工作在TE01模Ka波段四腔回旋速调管注-波互作用的数值计算结果,当电子注电压为72.8 kV,电流为11.8 A,速度零散为5%时,可以得到335 kW的最大饱和功率输出,39.6%的电子效率及320 MHz的饱和带宽,与实验值相比较,二者较为吻合。     

Nonlinear analysis of a multi-cavity gyro-twystron

To preserve high gain, high efficiency and high power merits of gyroklystron, a gyro-twystron is designed using an electron beam with α(v_⊥/v_z) greater than unity. With a multi-cavity section of high gain, the length of the waveguide output section can be made shorter than the threshold length of the absolute instability without losing total system gain. Numerical simulations are carried out to analyze a ka-band gyro- twystron consisting of three TE₁₁₁ mode cavities and an output section of a TE₁₁ mode waveguide. Stability study is performed to ensure the tube without self-excited oscillations. With α=1.5, the 3-dB linear and saturated gain bandwidth in excess of 2 % can be obtained by stagger tuning for an 80 kV, 3 A electron beam with 5 % axial velocity spread. The maximum saturated gain is more than 55 dB at 33 % efficiency. By tapering the magnetic field of the last 2 cm of the interaction region, the efficiency can be increased to 43 % without degrading the bandwidth, which corresponds to an output power of 103 kW.     

100-150 MW designs of two- and three-cavity gyroklystron amplifiersoperating at the fundamental and second harmonics in X- andKu-bands

Efficient 100-150 MW X- and Ku-band microwave sources with pulselengths of 1 μs are being developed for driving future linear colliders. Two- and three-cavity co-axial designs of relativistic gyroklystron amplifiers are presented here which fulfill these requirements. Numerical simulations predict over 40% efficiency, 45-50 dB gain, and 100-160 MW power level for the gyroklystron designs operating at fundamental (8.568 GHz) and second harmonic (17.136 GHz). It is shown that introducing a penultimate (buncher) cavity significantly improves efficiency and gain of the second-harmonic amplifier     

1.2kW C波段固态高效率GaN微波源研制

针对传统大功率Si,GaAs固态微波源效率低和高温度性能差的不足,采用导热系数优良的宽禁带GaN单元功放模块集成、低损耗同轴波导径向空间功率合成方法,研制出一种1.2kW全固态C波段高效率宽禁带GaN微波源。实验结果表明:该方法实现了大功率固态微波源高效率及连续长时间高温风冷散热运行,系统安全可靠。单路功放模块集成6位移相器,移相精度5.6°,增益35dB,输出功率大于31W。系统连续波输出功率1.2kW,总效率30%,谐波抑制-54.8dBc;杂散-63.69dBc,相位噪声-94.03dBc/Hz@1kHz。