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Design and Experiment of 4 MW Ka Band Sheet Electron Beam TWT

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High-power vacuum electron devices (VEDs) are attractive, because of their broad applications, such as advance radars, electromagnetic warfare, and plasma reactors. In this paper, a Ka band mega-watt sheet electron beam traveling wave tube (TWT) is reported. A two-staged rectangular waveguide grating slow wave structure (SWS) driven by a sheet electron beam (20 mm × 1 mm, 164.8 kV, 850 A, 20 ns) is used in this TWT. In order to suppress the self-excited oscillation, a rectangular BeO attenuator is inserted between the two-staged SWSs. The experimental results show that the TWT can produce more than 2 MW output power from 34.2 to 35.5 GHz. And the maximum output power is 4.24 MW at 35 GHz, corresponding to the gain of 25.9 dB. In the future, the TWT will be used to perform research on biomedical effects and imaging.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under (Grant Nos. 61531010, 61371052 and 61871095) and by the Joint Project of the Ministry of Education (Grant No. 6141A02022402) and Cooperation Project of Sichuan (Grant No. 2018HH0132).

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    Zhanliang Wang, Huarong Gong, Zhaoyun Duan, Shifeng Li & Yubin Gong

  2. Nanjing Research Institute of Electronic Technology, Nanjing, 210013, China

    Yabin Zhang

  3. Beijing Vacuum Electronics Research Institute (BVERI), Beijing, 100015, China

    Jinjun Feng

  4. Institute of Applied Electronics, China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP), Mianyang, 621900, China

    Shifeng Li

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Wang, Z., Zhang, Y., Gong, H. et al. Design and Experiment of 4 MW Ka Band Sheet Electron Beam TWT. J Infrared Milli Terahz Waves 40, 637–647 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10762-019-00591-3

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