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Vircator Technologies Comparison and Novel Anode Analysis
2021
High Power Microwave (HPM) sources are widely used as signal sources in radar, jammer, and Counter Improvised Explosive Devices (CIED). Such devices usually are heavy and bulky, characteristics that are in conflict with the small weight and power (SWaP) approach so that it is practically impossible to mount such HPMs on several platforms with reduced spaces (e.g., avionic, UAVs). During the last century, several devices have been proposed, all of them heavy due to the components that they need such as the magnetic material of the Magnetron, Klystron, or Gyrotron. Considering the HPM sources for pulsed applications, the VIRtual CAThode oscillatOR (Vircator) represents the best candidate due …
Novel Configuration for a C-Band Axial Vircator With High Output Power
2022
We present a novel configuration for an axial virtual cathode oscillator (Vircator) operating in the C-band and designed for high output power applications. In order to enhance the efficiency, we have employed a geometry with up to seven reflectors along the drift space. While in previous research works this optimization process has been performed only varying the reflectors radii while using a fixed distance between reflectors,in our work we propose an optimization in terms of both reflectors radii and distances. Our optimized structure for the axial Vircator is able to provide an efficiency up to 15.6% and an output power of 1.6 GW in the C-band, with a working voltage of 510 kV and a cat…