过模结构表面波振荡器模式选择

过模结构能提高器件的功率容量和工作频率, 能使器件工作在低磁场状态, 越来越多的器件采用过模结构.但是过模结构允许多个模式同时存在, 这可能会引起模式竞争问题.本文通过理论分析和数值计算, 研究了过模结构模式选择问题.计算结果表明, 通过选择合适的结构参数和电参数, 使得器件工作在行波状态, 可以实现不同横向模式的选择.在此基础上, 通过选择合适的电子束和结构参数, 能实现不同纵向模式的选择.对计算结果进行了粒子模拟验证, 与理论分析符合较好, 达到了模式选择的目的. 关键词： 过模结构 模式选择 色散关系 表面波振荡器     

过模矩形波导中硅芯片与基模亚毫米波的作用

模拟研究了过模矩形波导WR10中n型硅探测芯片对TE10模亚毫米波的响应。针对过模波导WR10中内置n型硅芯片的亚毫米波探测结构,推导了基模工作时的灵敏度表达式。采用三维电磁场时域有限差分方法,模拟计算了过模波导中300～400GHz频带的TE10模亚毫米波与硅芯片的相互作用,分析了探测结构中电压驻波比和芯片内平均电场随硅芯片参数变化的规律。结果表明,在相同的芯片参数下,过模探测结构并不影响电压驻波比和芯片内平均电场的大小,但两者随频率变化的波动程度增大。在300～400GHz工作频带内,优化得到了性能较优的过模探测结构,其电压驻波比不大于2.75(335～380GHz频带内不大于1.8),线性工作区的相对灵敏度约为0.127kW-1,频率响应的波动范围在±20.5%内,最大承受功率约为0.53kW,响应时间为100ps量级,满足亚毫米波大功率脉冲的直接探测需求。     

高功率微波弯曲圆波导设计

 报道了可分别传输TM₀₁模和TE₀₁模的两种弯曲圆波导的设计方法和计算结果。研究表明：所设计的TM01模弯曲波导和TE₀₁模弯曲波导在中心频率上传输效率均超过99.5%,传输效率大于95%的带宽分别达到20.0%和14.4%;该两个弯曲波导也分别适用于传输TE₁₁模和TM₁₁模;水平极化TE₁₁模与TM₀₁模、垂直极化TM₁₁模与TE₀₁模在弯曲圆波导中传输时具有相似的传输效率和频带特性;而垂直极化TE₁₁模、水平极化TM₁₁模由于不易和其它模式耦合,在弯曲波导中传输时具有较高的传输效率。     

基于过模波导的高功率微波准相干功率合成器

研究了一种用于功率合成的GW级高功率微波功率合成器。该合成器工作在X波段,输入微波由2路工作频率不同的X波段的微波源产生。为了满足输出功率和功率容量的要求,用于功率合成的微波源工作段波导的过模因子为12.7,这给功率合成器的设计带来了一定的困难。着重讨论了如何利用过模波导设计X波段高功率合成器,研究了如何抑制过模波导的高次模式并提高其功率容量和传输效率。设计的功率合成器单路传输效率达到99.0%以上,允许的最大输出功率达到5.6 GW以上,还可以按照需求适当增大高度,以进一步提高其功率容量而不影响传输效率。     

T形高功率微波功率合成器的初步实验研究

 初步实验研究一种新型插片式功率合成器,它具有结构紧凑、容易加工、功率容量高等优点。该器件通过在两个相互垂直的过模矩形波导中放置两组金属插板,来实现线极化高功率微波的双路非相干通道功率合成。在对该器件进行初步结构优化设计的基础上,对器件进行了初步实验研究。冷测实验结果表明：该器件在两个通道中均有效实现了单模传输,器件的反射损耗小于0.4 dB;热测实验结果表明：器件可以承受2 GW以上的高功率,功率容量满足需求。     

百MW过模结构太赫兹源特性

采用粒子模拟方法对一种基于过模结构的表面波振荡器相对论太赫兹源进行了研究,模拟得到了频率为0.148 THz的电磁波输出,主要输出模式为TM01模式。该结构的特点是没有反射结构,电磁波会进入二极管区域。研究了电子束电压和二极管区域内电磁场对输出功率和频率的影响以及器件几何结构参数对输出功率的影响。计算结果表明,泄露到二极管区域的电磁波对器件工作状态影响很小,但是二极管参数对器件的输出功率影响很大。     

Simulation and design of an X-band overmoded input cavity

The RF input cavity is an important component for velocity-modulating types of microwave device,providing velocity modulation and density modulation.Conventional RF input cavities,however,encounter the problem of power capacity in the high frequency band due to the scaling law of the working frequency and device size.In this paper,an X-band overmoded input cavity is proposed and investigated.A resonant reflector is employed to reflect the microwave and isolate the input cavity from the diode and RF extractor.The resonant property of the overmoded input cavity is proved by simulations and cold tests,with PIC simulation showing that with a beam voltage of 600 kV and current of 7 kA,an input power of 90 kW is sufficient to modulate the beam with a modulation depth of 3%.     

Computer-aided analysis and design of corrugated TE11 to HE11 mode converters in highly overmoded waveguides

A theoretical and experimental study of TE11-to-HE11 mode conversion in highly oversized waveguides is given. The balanced HE11 hybrid mode propagating in a circumferentially corrugated circular waveguide is in many respects ideal for effective electron cyclotron resonance heating of fusion plasmas with high-power gyrotrons. At an aperture antenna it exhibits desirable radiation characteristics such as linear polarization with very low cross polarization and axisymmetric power distribution with low sidelobe levels. This Gaussian-like mode can be generated from a TE11 mode by means of a corrugated mode converter in which the depth of the annular slots is tapered gradually from one-half to one-quarter wavelength. Computer-aided optimization of converter length, shape of corrugations, and of non-linear slot depth variation for 28 GHz- and 70 GHz-transducers was achieved with a scattering matrix formalism employing the modal field expansion technique (Modular Analysis Concept). In both cases the measured conversion efficiency of (98.5±0.5)% and the experimental values of the maximum cross polarization (below –28 dB) are in very good agreement with the predicted values. High-power operation was successfully demonstrated using pulsed 28 GHz- and 70 GHz-VARIAN gyrotrons (200 kW).     

Generation of the Gaussian-like HE11 mode from gyrotron TEOn mode mixtures at 70 GHz

This work reports calculations and measurements on mode converters for the transformation of TEOn gyrotron mode mixtures (primarily TEO2) into the linearly polarized HE11 hybrid mode at 70 GHz. This mode is ideal for quasi-optical launching systems for ECRH of plasmas. Mode transducers with axisymmetric radius perturbations convert the gyrotron TEOn mode composition into the TEO1 mode. Proper matching of the phase differences between the various modes and of the perturbation amplitudes of the several converter sections is required. The TEO1 wave is used for long-distance transmission through smooth-walled overmoded waveguides. A mode converter with constant diameter and periodically perturbed curvature transfers the unpolarized TEO1 mode into the polarized TE11 wave. The experimentally determined TEOn-to-TEO1 conversion efficiency is (98.5±1)% (99% predicted) while the TEO1-to-TE11 transformer has a (94±2)% efficiency (93% theoretically); ohmic losses are included. The Gaussian-like HE11 mode with axisymmetric power distribution and almost no cross polarization is produced in a circumferentially corrugated TE11-to-HE11 mode transducer with a measured conversion efficiency of (98.3±1.5)% (98.5% predicted). The overall efficiency of the complete mode converter system in the desired mode was determined to be (91±2.5)%. High-power operation (200kW, 100ms) has been successfully demonstrated.     

X波段GW级长脉冲高功率微波源的设计与实验

通过理论分析指出,单模相对论返波振荡器内的平均场强正比于其工作频率,工作在高频段难以实现长脉冲运行。采用电磁场仿真方法,比较了X波段单模和过模慢波结构的场分布特点,结果表明:增加过模比能有效减小慢波结构表面的射频场强,但由于场分布变化导致场强的减小与过模比的增加相比并不显著。利用过模比约为3的慢波结构设计了一种X波段长脉冲高功率微波源。实验中,在单次运行条件下,输出微波功率达到2 GW、脉宽80 ns;在20 Hz重复频率运行条件下,输出微波功率达到1.2 GW、脉宽100 ns。器件产生的微波频率为9.38 GHz,主模为TM01,效率约24%。微波窗口和慢波结构表面的射频击穿是目前实验中限制微波功率和脉宽增加的关键因素。