Particle-in-cell based parameter study of 12-cavity, 12-cathode rising-sun relativistic magnetrons for improved performance

We explore the performance of a 12 stepped-cavity relativistic magnetron with axial extraction (12 stepped-cavity RMDO) driven by an “F” transparent cathode (the “F” transparent cathode is a coaxial transparent cathode with two azimuthal periods of increased thickness and which looks like the letter “F,” so we call it “F” transparent cathode) through particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. It is shown that using the “F” transparent cathode, an electronic efficiency of 70% with gigawatt output power is obtained while reducing the axial leakage current by about 50% compared to using the usual transparent cathode. Further PIC simulations demonstrate that frequency bifurcation occurs and mode switching can be achieved using several hundred kilowatts input RF power in the 12 stepped-cavity RMDO driven by an “F” transparent cathode. For example, it was found that using an applied driver power of 180 kW for 10 ns, the operating TE31 mode can be switched to the TE41 mode. It is also found that the secondary electron and backscattered electron emission and axial leakage current were two disturbing factors for the 12 stepped-cavity RMDO when it works at a stable operation mode but when the 12 stepped-cavity RMDO works near the critical magnetic field at the boundary between two modes, these two factors would lead to the operation modes changing.

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Investigation of the operating characteristics of a 12 stepped-cavity relativistic magnetron with axial extraction driven by an “F” transparent cathode using particle-in-cell simulations

Liu

Schamiloglu

Jiang

et al. 2016

Physics of Plasmas

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A frequency tunable relativistic magnetron with a wide operation regime

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A frequency tunable relativistic magnetron (RM) with a wide operation regime is proposed. With the all cavity-magnetron axial extraction technique, the RM can output TEM mode with the operating frequency of 4.3 GHz, which is demonstrated as the dominating output mode by theoretical analysis, cold simulations and hot simulations respectively, corresponding to the output power of 466 MW and the power conversion efficiency of 56.4 %. It also can achieve a wide frequency tuning with the bandwidth of 0.96 GHz and the relative bandwidth of 20.8 %, corresponding to the output power of above 400 MW and the power conversion efficiency of above 40 %. Further simulation results show that the RM has strong performance robustness to the perturbations of the electrical parameters and almost all structural parameters except the cathode radius, anode radius and cavity radius, however two methods proposed in this paper can be taken to further improve the RM performance. The performance robustness enables the RM to operate with a wide parameter regime while keeping a good performance. In addition, a GW-level RM with the power conversion efficiency of 55.9 % also can be obtained.

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A modified relativistic magnetron with TEM output mode

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A modified relativistic magnetron (RM) with TEM output mode is proposed. By setting the coupling slots at the bottom of the resonant cavities in the transmission region rather than in the interaction region, besides possessing the original RM's advantages of high power conversion efficiency and radiating the lowest order mode, the modified RM not only improves the compactness and miniaturization of the magnetic field system, which is beneficial to realize the RMs packed by a permanent magnet, but also improves the robustness of operating frequency to structural perturbations of the coupling slots, which contributes to optimize the RM performance by adjusting the coupling slot dimensions with a relatively stable operating frequency. In the three-dimensional particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation, the modified RM with a reduction of 27.2% in the weight of the coils, 35.8% in the occupied space of the coils, and 18.6% in the operating current, can output a relatively pure TEM mode, which has been demonstrated as the dominant output mode by simulation, corresponding to an output power of 495.0 MW and a power conversion efficiency of 56.4%, at the resonant frequency of 4.30 GHz. In addition, an output power of above 2 GW can also be obtained from the RM in simulations.

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Particle-in-cell based parameter study of 12-cavity, 12-cathode rising-sun relativistic magnetrons for improved performance

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Investigation of the operating characteristics of a 12 stepped-cavity relativistic magnetron with axial extraction driven by an “F” transparent cathode using particle-in-cell simulations

Investigation of the operating characteristics of a 12 stepped-cavity relativistic magnetron with axial extraction driven by an “F” transparent cathode using particle-in-cell simulations

A frequency tunable relativistic magnetron with a wide operation regime

A modified relativistic magnetron with TEM output mode

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