Three-Way Serpentine Slow-Wave Structures with Stationary Inflection Point and Enhanced Interaction Impedance
arXiv:2203.05641 · doi:10.1109/TPS.2022.3218040
Abstract
We introduce two novel variants of the serpentine waveguide slow-wave structure (SWS), often utilized in millimeter-wave traveling-wave tubes (TWTs), with an enhanced interaction impedance. Using dispersion engineering in conjunction with transfer matrix methods, we tune the guided wavenumber dispersion relation to exhibit stationary inflection points (SIPs), and also non-stationary, or tilted inflection points (TIPs), within the dominant TE10 mode of a rectangular waveguide. The degeneracy is found below the first upper band-edge associated with the bandgap where neighboring spatial harmonics meet in the dispersion of the serpentine waveguide (SWG) which is threaded by a beam tunnel. The structure geometries are optimized to be able to achieve an SIP which allows for three-mode synchronism with an electron beam over a specified wavenumber interval in the desired Brillouin zone. Full-wave simulations are used to obtain and verify the existence of the SIP in the three-way coupled waveguide and fine-tune the geometry such that a beam would be in synchronism at or near the SIP. The three-way waveguide SWS exhibits a moderately high Pierce impedance in the vicinity of a nearly-stationary inflection point, making the SWS geometry potentially useful for improving the power gain and basic extraction efficiency of millimeter-wave TWTs. Additionally, the introduced SWS geometries have directional coupler-like behavior, which enables distributed power extraction at frequencies near the SIP frequency.
arXiv comment14 pages, 8 figures
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