{"title":"Efficiency enhancement of high power microwave generation from a cylindrical virtual cathode oscillator with ring-type reflector","authors":"E. Choi, K. Y. Sung, W. Jeon, H. Uhm","doi":"10.1109/PPC.2003.1277750","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We have investigated an efficiency enhancement of high power microwave generation from cylindrical virtual cathode oscillator by adopting a ring type reflector in this experiment. This high power microwave generator is powered by the \"Chundoong\" intense relativistic electron beam pulser (Max : 600 kV, 88 kA and 60 ns duration). It is noted in this experiment that the maximum power can be obtained at the cylindrical A-K gap distance of 8 mm with ring-type reflector width 7mm. The microwave frequency has been measured to be 4.8/spl sim/5.1 GHz by combination of coupled line band pass filters with band gap of 1 GHz and dispersive delay line. It is noted that the output microwave power and its microwave conversion efficiency without reflector are about 244 MW and 2.7 %, respectively, at A-K gap distance 4mm in this experiment. It is especially found in this experiment that the maximum microwave output power and efficiency with optimized ring-type reflector could be enhanced up to 426 MW and 7.1 %, respectively.","PeriodicalId":143385,"journal":{"name":"Digest of Technical Papers. PPC-2003. 14th IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37472)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2003-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Digest of Technical Papers. PPC-2003. 14th IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37472)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PPC.2003.1277750","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We have investigated an efficiency enhancement of high power microwave generation from cylindrical virtual cathode oscillator by adopting a ring type reflector in this experiment. This high power microwave generator is powered by the "Chundoong" intense relativistic electron beam pulser (Max : 600 kV, 88 kA and 60 ns duration). It is noted in this experiment that the maximum power can be obtained at the cylindrical A-K gap distance of 8 mm with ring-type reflector width 7mm. The microwave frequency has been measured to be 4.8/spl sim/5.1 GHz by combination of coupled line band pass filters with band gap of 1 GHz and dispersive delay line. It is noted that the output microwave power and its microwave conversion efficiency without reflector are about 244 MW and 2.7 %, respectively, at A-K gap distance 4mm in this experiment. It is especially found in this experiment that the maximum microwave output power and efficiency with optimized ring-type reflector could be enhanced up to 426 MW and 7.1 %, respectively.