Analog signal processing in the terahertz communication links using waveguide Bragg gratings: example of dispersion compensation

T Ma, K Nallapan, H Guerboukha, M Skorobogatiy - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We study the possibility of analog signal processing for the upcoming terahertz (THz) high-
bitrate communications using as an example the problem of dispersion compensation in the …

Wideband corrugated feedhorns, for radar, communications, radiometry and quasi-optics

DJ Sung, N Thomsen, S Macpherson… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A wide variety of desirable antenna beam patterns can be synthesized by optimal excitation
and phasing of the HE 11 and HE 12 modes in scalar corrugated feedhorns. However, the …

An output coupler for a W-band high power wideband gyroamplifier

P McElhinney, CR Donaldson… - … on Electron Devices, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An output coupler for a W-band high power wideband gyroamplifier has been designed,
manufactured, and experimentally measured. It consists of a high performance sin 2-parallel …

Design and High-Power Test of an Internal Coupler to HE11 Mode in Corrugated Waveguide for High-Power Gyrotrons

JM Neilson, RL Ives, SC Schaub… - … on Electron Devices, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Gyrotrons produce power in high-order, transverse electric modes that are typically
converted to a Gaussian beam inside the tube. In fusion plasma heating applications, the …

Circular corrugated miter bend and gap losses for broadband frequency applications

C Lau, MC Kaufman, EJ Doyle… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Circular corrugated waveguides are often used in fusion applications at single, multiple, or
broadband millimeter frequencies due to their low ohmic loss, expected large frequency …

Generating optical vortex beams using cylindrical waveguides

Y Fujita, H Nakamura, H Kawaguchi… - Japanese Journal of …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
As an initial step toward exciting optical vortices using high-power millimeter waves, this
study developed a method for inducing vortex modes within a cylindrical waveguide using …

Power monitor miter bends for high-power microwave transmission

J Doane, J Anderson, H Grunloh, W Wu - Fusion Engineering and Design, 2015 - Elsevier
Two miter bends are described for monitoring the power transmitted in an oversized
corrugated wave-guide. One has an array of holes in its mirror that couples a small fraction …

Real-time steerable frequency-stepped Doppler Backscattering (DBS) System for local helicon wave electric field measurements on the DIII-D tokamak

S Chowdhury, NA Crocker, WA Peebles… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
A new frequency-stepped Doppler backscattering (DBS) system has been integrated with a
real-time steerable electron cyclotron heating launcher to probe local background …

Microwave analysis with Monte Carlo methods for ECH transmission lines

MC Kaufman, C Lau, GR Hanson - Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and …, 2018 - Springer
A new code framework, MORAMC, is presented which model transmission line (TL) systems
consisting of overmoded circular waveguide and other components including miter bends …

Design and characterization of a 170-GHz resonant diplexer for high-power ECRH systems

Z Wu, W Kasparek, B Plaum - IEEE Transactions on Microwave …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The development of resonant diplexers for millimeter waves can improve the flexibility,
simplify the system complexity, and extend the performance of electron cyclotron resonance …