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Chin. Phys. B, 2015, Vol. 24(3): 035203    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/24/3/035203
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A tunable magnetically insulated transmission line oscillator

Fan Yu-Wei (樊玉伟), Wang Xiao-Yu (王晓玉), He Liang (赫亮), Zhong Hui-Huang (钟辉煌), Zhang Jian-De (张建德)
College of Optoelectric Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China
Abstract  

A tunable magnetically insulated transmission line oscillator (MILO) is put forward and simulated. When the MILO is driven by a 430 kV, 40.6 kA electron beam, high-power microwave is generated with a peak output power of 3.0 GW and frequency of 1.51 GHz, and the relevant power conversion efficiency is 17.2%. The 3-dB tunable frequency range (the relative output power is above half of the peak output power) is 2.25-0.825 GHz when the outer radius of the slow-wave structure (SWS) vanes ranges from 77 mm to 155 mm, and the 3-dB tuning bandwidth is 92%, which is sufficient for the aim of large-scale tuning and high power output.

Keywords:  tunable magnetically insulated transmission line oscillator (MILO)      particle-in-cell method  
Received:  29 October 2014      Revised:  30 November 2014      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  52.59.-f (Intense particle beams and radiation sources)  
  52.65.Rr (Particle-in-cell method)  
  52.27.Ny (Relativistic plasmas)  
Fund: 

Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11075210) and the Special Financial Grant from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 201104761).

Corresponding Authors:  Fan Yu-Wei     E-mail:  fyw9108212@126.com

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Fan Yu-Wei (樊玉伟), Wang Xiao-Yu (王晓玉), He Liang (赫亮), Zhong Hui-Huang (钟辉煌), Zhang Jian-De (张建德) A tunable magnetically insulated transmission line oscillator 2015 Chin. Phys. B 24 035203

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