An output coupler for a W-band high power wideband gyro-amplifier
Abstract
An output coupler for a W-band high power wideband gyro-amplifier has been designed, manufactured and experimentally measured. It consists of a high performance sin2-parallel corrugated horn integrated with a broadband multi-layer window. The major design requirements are that the horn/window combination must have an input return loss lower than -30 dB over a 10 GHz bandwidth, provide a high quality output beam pattern, and operate under ultra-high vacuum conditions. The coupler converts a circular wave guide TE11 mode into the free space Laguerre Gaussian LG00 mode over the frequency band of 90–100 GHz with a measured return loss of between -30 and -40 dB and a simulated Gaussian coupling efficiency of over 99% at 94 GHz.
Citation
McElhinney , P , Donaldson , C , McKay , J E , Zhang , L , Robertson , D A , Hunter , R I , Smith , G M , He , W & Cross , A 2017 , ' An output coupler for a W-band high power wideband gyro-amplifier ' IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices , vol 64 , no. 4 , 7857760 . DOI: 10.1109/TED.2017.2660304
Publication
IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0018-9383Type
Journal article
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© 2017, IEEE. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at ieeexplore.ieee.org / https://doi.org/10.1109/TED.2017.2660304
Description
This work was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) U.K. under Research Grant EP/K029746/1, and Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) U.K. under Research Grants ST/K006673/1 & ST/K006703/1, ST/N002326/1 & ST/N002318/1.Items in the St Andrews Research Repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.