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Design and experiment of a cross-shaped mode converter for high-power microwave applications
Shengren Peng1, Chengwei Yuan1, Huihuang Zhong1
1College of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
A compact mode converter, which is capable of converting a TM01 mode into a circularly polarized TE11 mode, was developed and experimentally studied with high-power microwaves. The converter, consisting of two turnstile junctions, is very short along the wave propagation direction, and therefore is suitable for designing compact and axially aligned high-power microwave radiation systems. In this paper, the principle of a converter working at 1.75 GHz is demonstrated, as well as the experimental results. The experimental and simulation results are in good agreement. At the center frequency, the conversion efficiency is more than 95%, the measured axial ratio is about 0.4 dB, and the power-handing capacity is excess of 1.9 GW.
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