Proceedings of 2015 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 6 - 9,Page(s)2225-2229
Abstract
In this paper, Virtual Cathode Oscillator as a microwave generator is studied
concentrating on the nonlinear behavior of the microwave-plasma interaction that introduces
chaos to the output voltage and power of the generator. It is shown that periodic oscillations of
the electron beam strictly depend on the two most critical characteristics of the VCO, the input
maximum voltage and the cathode radius. The chaos caused by the critical values of these two
parameters, could restrict the maximum possible values of the input parameters, reducing the
overall maximum output values. The effects of these two parameters are studied trough PIC-code
simulations. The simulation results were used to extract the bifurcation diagrams and analyze
the chaos patterns accurately. Chaos, as a serious cause for overall efficiency and output power
reduction, is decreased applying a new method which is proposed considering the study results.
Citation
Seyed Morad-Ali Hashemi,
Ali Pirmoradi,
and
Erfan Zabeh,
"Chaos Control in Virtual Cathode Oscillator by Cathode Structural Optimization," Proceedings of 2015 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 6 - 9,Page(s)2225-2229