一种矩形截面切伦柯夫脉塞金属周期慢波结构的分析方法

 分析了矩形截面切伦柯夫脉塞周期金属慢波结构的色散特性,以及结构参数的变化对色散曲线的影响。为避免慢波结构两端突变引起的反射振荡,采用等效电路法分析了用于连接光滑波导和慢波结构的渐变段。将线性形、两段形和指数形的渐变段进行了比较。指数形渐变段末端的功率反射系数最小, 并且整体的变化最平缓, 因此可将其作为实现慢波与快波间转换的较优选择。分析了频率和实际加工误差对指数形渐变段功率反射系数的影响:在频率较小时,功率反射系数也较小;固定频率下,较小的加工误差能使交界处功率反射系数的变化较平缓。在此基础上设计了一个功率反射系数小于0.01的指数渐变段,实现了工作模式和快波模式之间的良好匹配。与耦合模理论分析方法相比,等效电路方法更为简洁,二者结果相符合。     

Analysis and design of the taper in metal-grating periodic slow-wave structures for rectangular Cerenkov masers

The hybrid-mode dispersion equation of the metal-grating periodic slow-wave structure for a rectangular Cerenkov maser is derived by using the Borgnis function and field-matching methods.An equivalent-circuit model for the taper of the groove depth that matches the smooth waveguide to the metal-grating structure is proposed.By using the equivalentcircuit method,as well as the Ansoft high frequency structure simulator(HFSS) code,an appropriate electromagnetic mode for beam-wave interaction is selected and the equivalent-circuit analysis on the taper is given.The calculated results show that a cumulative reflection coefficient of 0.025 for the beam-wave interaction structure at a working frequency of 78.1 GHz can be reached by designing the exponential taper with a TE z10 rectangular waveguide mode as the input and the desired TE x10 mode as the output.It is worth pointing out that by using the equivalent-circuit method,the complex field-matching problems from the traditional field-theory method for taper design can be avoided,so the taper analysis process is markedly simplified.