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Study of Cavity Resonances in Quasioptical Grid Amplifier with Hard-walled Waveguide Section

Per-Simon Kildal
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Lorenzo Aquarelli
Master student at Chalmers from Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain

Rosé R. Verdú Lillo
Master student at Chalmers from University of Siena, Italy

Robert M. Weikle
Guest researcher at Chalmers from University of Virginia, USA

Herbert Zirath
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

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Published in: GigaHertz 2003. Proceedings from the Seventh Symposium

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 8:65, p.

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Published: 2003-11-06

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ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)

Abstract

Professors Zirath and Kildal’s groups at Chalmers have started a cooperation on developing a spatial quasioptical grid amplifier. Initially most work is done by guest researcher and Master students. The waveguide components are studied in Kildal’s group; whereas the active grid is being studied in cooperation between Zirath’s group and Dr Weikle’s group in Virginia. The present paper describes the initial study of the waveguide components; involving the development of a hard horn transition from a standard waveguide to a quadratic quasi-TEM hard waveguide.

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