High power combining of Ka-band TWTs for deep space communications

2006 IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference held jointly with 2006 IEEE International Vacuum Electron Sources, IVEC/IVESC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 63-64

  Wintucky, E G ^a   Simons, R N ^a   Vaden, K R ^a   Lesny, G G ^b   Glass, J L ^c  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Alphaport Inc   (United States)

^c ZIN Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Ka band; Power combining; Space communications; Traveling wave tubes; Waveguide hybrid junctions

Indexed keywords

KA BANDS; POWER COMBINING; SPACE COMMUNICATIONS; WAVEGUIDE HYBRID JUNCTIONS;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FREQUENCY BANDS; SPACE APPLICATIONS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; WAVEGUIDES;

TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

EID: 33847615450     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

1. E.G. Wintucky et al., "Waveguide Power Combiner Demonstration for Multiple High Power Millimeter Wave TWTAs," Fifth IEEE Inter. Vacuum Electronics Conf., Monterey, CA, pp. 98-99, April 27-29, 2004.
2. th Ka and Broadband Communications Conf., Vicenza, Italy, pp. 501-508, Sep. 30-Oct, 2, 2004.
3. N.R. Robbins et al., "High Power, High Efficiency 32 GHz Space Traveling wave Tube," Fifth IEEE Inter. Vacuum Electronics Conf., Monterey, CA, pp. 261-262, April 27-29, 2004.
4. K. Vaden et al, "Computer Aided Design of Ka-Band Waveguide Power Combiner Architectures for Interplanetary Spacecraft," 2005 IEEE Inter. Symp. on Antennas & Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meet., pp. 635-638, Washington, DC, July 3-8, 2005.