A Novel Staggered Double-Segmented Grating Slow-Wave Structure for 340 GHz Traveling-Wave Tube
Zechuan Wang,
Junwan Zhu,
Zhigang Lu,
Jingrui Duan,
Haifeng Chen,
Shaomeng Wang,
Zhanliang Wang,
Huarong Gong,
Yubin Gong
Affiliations
Zechuan Wang
National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Vacuum Electronics, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, No. 2006 Xiyuan Avenue, High-Tech District (West District), Chengdu 611731, China
Junwan Zhu
National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Vacuum Electronics, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, No. 2006 Xiyuan Avenue, High-Tech District (West District), Chengdu 611731, China
Zhigang Lu
National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Vacuum Electronics, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, No. 2006 Xiyuan Avenue, High-Tech District (West District), Chengdu 611731, China
Jingrui Duan
National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Vacuum Electronics, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, No. 2006 Xiyuan Avenue, High-Tech District (West District), Chengdu 611731, China
Haifeng Chen
National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Vacuum Electronics, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, No. 2006 Xiyuan Avenue, High-Tech District (West District), Chengdu 611731, China
Shaomeng Wang
National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Vacuum Electronics, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, No. 2006 Xiyuan Avenue, High-Tech District (West District), Chengdu 611731, China
Zhanliang Wang
National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Vacuum Electronics, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, No. 2006 Xiyuan Avenue, High-Tech District (West District), Chengdu 611731, China
Huarong Gong
National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Vacuum Electronics, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, No. 2006 Xiyuan Avenue, High-Tech District (West District), Chengdu 611731, China
Yubin Gong
National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Vacuum Electronics, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, No. 2006 Xiyuan Avenue, High-Tech District (West District), Chengdu 611731, China
In this paper, a novel staggered double-segmented grating slow-wave structure (SDSG-SWS) is developed for wide-band high-power submillimeter wave traveling-wave tubes (TWTs). The SDSG-SWS can be considered as a combination of the sine waveguide (SW) SWS and the staggered double-grating (SDG) SWS; that is, it is obtained by introducing the rectangular geometric ridges of the SDG-SWS into the SW-SWS. Thus, the SDSG-SWS has the advantages of the wide operating band, high interaction impedance, low ohmic loss, low reflection, and ease of fabrication. The analysis for high-frequency characteristics shows that, compared with the SW-SWS, the SDSG-SWS has higher interaction impedance when their dispersions are at the same level, while the ohmic loss for the two SWSs remains basically unchanged. Furthermore, the calculation results of beam–wave interaction show that the output power is above 16.4 W for the TWT using the SDSG-SWS in the range of 316 GHz–405 GHz with a maximum power of 32.8 W occurring at 340 GHz, whose corresponding maximum electron efficiency is 2.84%, when the operating voltage is 19.2 kV and the current is 60 mA.
