Tunable circularly-polarized turnstile-junction mode converter for high-power microwave applications
Tunable circularly-polarized turnstile-junction mode converter for high-power microwave applications作者机构：（College of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies National University of Defense Technology Changsha 410073 China
出 版 物：《Chinese Physics B》 (中国物理B（英文版）)
年 卷 期：2018年第27卷第6期
页 面：502-506页
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基 金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61671457)
主 题：mode converter high conversion efficiency frequency tuning performance
摘 要：Frequency tunability has become a subject of concern in the field of high-power microwave（HPM） source ***, little information about the corresponding mode converter is available. A tunable circularly-polarized turnstilejunction mode converter（TCTMC） for high-power microwave applications is presented in this paper. The input coaxial TEM mode is transformed into TE（10） mode with different phase delays in four rectangular waveguides and then converted into a circularly-polarized TE（11） circular waveguide mode. Besides, the rods are added to reduce or even eliminate the reflection. The innovations in this study are as follows. The tunning mechanism is added to the mode converter, which can change the effective length of rectangular waveguide and the distance between the rods installed upstream and the closest edge of the rectangular waveguide, thus improving the conversion efficiency and bandwidth. The conversion efficiency of TCTMC can reach above 98% over the frequency range of 1.42 GHz–2.29 GHz, and the frequency tunning bandwidth is about 47%. Significantly, TCTMC can obtain continuous high conversion efficiency of different frequency points with the change of tuning mechanism.
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