Abstract
Increasing the input current is an important method to achieve the high-power output for the traveling wave tubes (TWTs) operating in the <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\textit{W}$</tex-math> </inline-formula> -band and higher terahertz (THz) band. For the folded waveguide (FW) TWT, increasing the height of the straight waveguide section of slow wave structure (SWS) can realize a double tunnel to increase the input current, but its electromagnetic characteristics, such as the operating passband, interaction impedance, and ohmic loss, become worse. Thus, a novel SWS, called folded rectangular-grating (FRG), with two tunnels for more input current, was proposed. Its two beam tunnels, where the electromagnetic wave in the operating band is cutoff, are located on the upper and lower edges of the grating, respectively, which makes the FRG-SWS have a wider operating passband, higher interaction impedance, and lower ohmic loss by freely adjusting its grating height. More importantly, its structural complexity is the same as that of FW-SWS. First, the electromagnetic characteristics, including dispersion, interaction impedance, and ohmic loss, are analyzed. Then, the particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation was carried out to verify that the saturated power, gain, and electron efficiency of TWT using FRG-SWS have been significantly improved compared with the TWT using FW-SWS. In the end, the cold test of transmission characteristics for FRG-SWS was done, and the experimental results are basically in good agreement with the simulation ones when the conductivity is set as 2.25 <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times$</tex-math> </inline-formula> 10 <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$^{\text{7}}$</tex-math> </inline-formula> S/m.
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