Experimental Study on Weakly Relativistic Oversized Backward Wave Oscillator with Coaxial Rectangular Corrugations

Abstract

Experimental studies of coaxial oversized backward wave oscillators (BWOs) are presented. The beam voltage is weakly relativistic, less than 100 kV. The slow-wave structure (SWS) consists of a rectangularly corrugated oversized hollow waveguide and rectangularly corrugated inner conductor and has a target operating frequency due to Cherenkov interaction is in the K-band. The coaxial SWS can have two surface waves caused by the inner and the outer corrugations. The oversized BWO operations under the influences of two surface waves are examined. The oscillation start voltage is decreased by introducing a rectangularly corrugated inner conductor. The output power is increased greatly as compared with those without the corrugated inner conductor. The inner corrugation improves the oversized BWO operation.