W-band Multi-Beam Sine Waveguide Traveling-Wave Tube with Low Current Density

Abstract

A W-band multi-beam traveling-wave tube (TWT) based on sine slow-wave structure is designed. The cold bandwidths of the fundamental and higher-order modes in the slow-wave circuit are analyzed using HFSS software. Through reasonable structural design, the fundamental mode and low-order mode are suppressed. The beam-wave interaction capability of the multi-beam TWT is analyzed based on the high-order mode transmission design. At the voltage of 11.7 kV, the current density of the sheet electron beam is 96 A/cm2 which can be produced by the non-convergent electron gun, and the output power is over 150 W in the operating frequency 90 GHz-100 GHz.