Author Affiliations
1Graduate School of China Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang 621900, China2Institute of Applied Electronics, CAEP, Mianyang 621900, Chinashow less
Fig. 1. Schematic diagram of two-stage power divider input coupler
Fig. 2. Schematic of power divider travelling line
Fig. 3. Transmission performance and deviation analysis of the Ka band gyro-TWT power divider input structure
Fig. 4. Electric field distribution of the input coupler
Fig. 5. Influence of width parameters on transmission performance of the power divider input coupler
Fig. 6. Influence of length parameters on transmission performance of the power divider input structure
Fig. 7. Transmission performance comparison between grooved and ungrooved structure
Fig. 8. Power divider input structure with groove filter
Fig. 9. Electric field distribution of the power divider input structure with groove filter
Fig. 10. Influence of metal sheet structure parameters on transmission performance of TE21 mode
Fig. 11. Back to back cold test experiment of power division input coupler
Fig. 12. Comparison between simulation and cold test
a/mm
| b/mm
| R/mm
| Rc/mm
| W1/mm
| W2/mm
| W3/mm
| L1/mm
| L2/mm
| L3/mm
| d/mm
| sheet metal size | 7.112 | 3.556 | 6.41 | 4.57 | 1.78 | 0.90 | 3.0 | 22.9 | 3.00 | 12.1 | 3.556 | 2.24 mm×7.38 mm×0.5 mm |
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Table 1. Final structure parameter of power divider input structure
structure | plug loss relative
bandwidth/%
| maximum mode conversion
efficiency/%
| mode
purity/%
| Qiao Yiming[7]. 220 GHz TE10-TE01 sidewall coupled mode converter.
| 1.0 dB bandwidth 6.8 | 99.0 | − | Yu C F[8]. High-performance circular TE01-mode converter.
| 1.0 dB bandwidth 18.2 | 98.5 | 99.0 | Zhang Qiang[10]. Circular waveguide TE01 mode converter design.
| 0.1 dB bandwidth 6.6 | 99.9 | − | Sun Hao[9]. W-band cyclotron broad band low-loss input coupler design.
| 0.1 dB bandwidth10.5 | 99.8 | 96.8 | structure of this work. | 0.1 dB bandwidth 14.5 | 100.0 | 99.3 |
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Table 2. Comparison of power divider input structure performance