An output coupler for a W-band high power wideband gyro-amplifier

Paul McElhinney; Craig R. Donaldson; Johannes E. McKay; Liang Zhang; Duncan A. Robertson; Robert I. Hunter; Graham M. Smith; Wenlong He; Adrian W. Cross

doi:10.1109/TED.2017.2660304

An output coupler for a W-band high power wideband gyro-amplifier

Paul McElhinney, Craig R. Donaldson, Johannes E. McKay, Liang Zhang, Duncan A. Robertson, Robert I. Hunter, Graham M. Smith, Wenlong He, Adrian W. Cross

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Abstract

An output coupler for a W-band high power wideband gyro-amplifier has been designed, manufactured and experimentally measured. It consists of a high performance sin2-parallel corrugated horn integrated with a broadband multi-layer window. The major design requirements are that the horn/window combination must have an input return loss lower than -30 dB over a 10 GHz bandwidth, provide a high quality output beam pattern, and operate under ultra-high vacuum conditions. The coupler converts a circular waveguide TE11 mode into the free space Laguerre Gaussian LG00 mode over the frequency band of 90–100 GHz with a measured return loss of between -30 and -40 dB and a simulated Gaussian coupling efficiency of over 99% at 94 GHz.

Language	English
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Early online date	16 Feb 2017
DOIs	10.1109/TED.2017.2660304
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 16 Feb 2017

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Keywords

corrugated horn
Gaussian coupling
microwave window
W-band
gyro-amplifier
high power
wideband
input return loss

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McElhinney, P., Donaldson, C. R., McKay, J. E., Zhang, L., Robertson, D. A., Hunter, R. I., ... Cross, A. W. (2017). An output coupler for a W-band high power wideband gyro-amplifier. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. https://doi.org/10.1109/TED.2017.2660304

McElhinney, Paul ; Donaldson, Craig R. ; McKay, Johannes E. ; Zhang, Liang ; Robertson, Duncan A. ; Hunter, Robert I. ; Smith, Graham M. ; He, Wenlong ; Cross, Adrian W. / An output coupler for a W-band high power wideband gyro-amplifier. In: IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. 2017.

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An output coupler for a W-band high power wideband gyro-amplifier. / McElhinney, Paul; Donaldson, Craig R.; McKay, Johannes E.; Zhang, Liang; Robertson, Duncan A.; Hunter, Robert I.; Smith, Graham M.; He, Wenlong; Cross, Adrian W.

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