학술논문

Phase-Locked All-Cavity-Extraction Relativistic Magnetrons With Azimuth-Uniform Coupling Structure for Coherent Combining Applications
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices IEEE Trans. Electron Devices Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on. 70(11):5890-5896 Nov, 2023
Subject
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Couplings
Electric fields
Rectangular waveguides
Microwave oscillators
Magnetrons
Freeports
Electric breakdown
All-cavity axial extraction
high-power microwave (HPM)
phase locking
relativistic magnetron (RM)
Language
ISSN
0018-9383
1557-9646
Abstract
An investigation on the phase locking of S-band relativistic magnetrons with an all-cavity-extraction (ACE-RM) structure is carried out. In order not to disrupt the periodic distribution of electric fields in the resonant cavities, an azimuth-uniform coupling structure is introduced, which could achieve a transmission efficiency of over 98% at the operating frequency, with an amplitude difference of only ±3.3%. Furthermore, particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations demonstrate that when five ACE RMs are interconnected through four such coupling structures, phase locking can be achieved, and the relative phase jitters are controlled within ±1%. After establishing stable $\pi $ -mode oscillation in RMs, in each of the 20 ports, an average output power of over 400 MW can be obtained, corresponding to a total power of 8.5 GW and a power conversion efficiency of 45%.