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TY - GEN
T1 - D-band medium power traveling wave tube
AU - Basu, Rupa
AU - Letizia, Rosa
AU - Narasimhan, Purushothaman
AU - Paoloni, Claudio
PY - 2022/4/25
Y1 - 2022/4/25
N2 - D-band (141 - 175.8 GHz) is very attractive for high capacity wireless links. However, the low power available from solid state amplifiers is not sufficient to ensure long links with 99.99% availability in the most common rain zones. Traveling wave tubes have been extensively demonstrated as the solution for satisfying the link budget. At sub-THz frequencies their fabrication is difficult and expensive. Typically, the 40 dB gain needed can be provided by two sections of slow wave structure separated by a sever. Due to the intrinsic low interaction impedance at sub-Thz frequencies, slow wave structures with high number of periods are needed. In case of metal SWS this determines long fabrication time and difficult assembly. This paper presents a short double corrugated waveguides for wide band (141 - 148.5 GHz) TWTs to provide about 26 dB gain and reduced fabrication difficulties.
AB - D-band (141 - 175.8 GHz) is very attractive for high capacity wireless links. However, the low power available from solid state amplifiers is not sufficient to ensure long links with 99.99% availability in the most common rain zones. Traveling wave tubes have been extensively demonstrated as the solution for satisfying the link budget. At sub-THz frequencies their fabrication is difficult and expensive. Typically, the 40 dB gain needed can be provided by two sections of slow wave structure separated by a sever. Due to the intrinsic low interaction impedance at sub-Thz frequencies, slow wave structures with high number of periods are needed. In case of metal SWS this determines long fabrication time and difficult assembly. This paper presents a short double corrugated waveguides for wide band (141 - 148.5 GHz) TWTs to provide about 26 dB gain and reduced fabrication difficulties.
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
BT - 2022 23rd International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC)
PB - IEEE
ER -