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Minutes of the CLIC Meeting - 6 August 2004


Agenda:
30 GHz Power Line and SLED-II Pulse Compressor for CTF3
Speaker:
S. Kuzikov (IAP, Nizhny Novgorod), Igor Syratchev

 
Agenda:

The design, the manufacturing and the low power test results for the overmoded 30 GHz power line will be presented.
Possible scenarios for a CTF3 30 GHz pulse compressor will be discussed.


Sergey presented the High-Power Low-Loss TE01 Transmission Line for CTF-3. He showed details of the different components making up the line and presented the assembly and low power tests done in CTF2. The line behaves very close to the theoretical expectation.

Then he presented ideas and tests for multi-moded SLED-II pulse compressors. Large volume TE01 mode cavities can be very efficient delay lines, much shorter than classical delay lines, allowing for a reduction of 10-50 times the length of the lines. He showed the idea of one-channel SLED-II pulse compressor based on ring-like cavities, where different modes travel in the opposite directions, and compressors based on multi-mirror delay lines.
copy of his transparencies
    (30 GHz transmission line, pdf format)
    (30 GHz pulse compression, pdf format)
Ian remarked that the TE01 mode cavities are an interesting alternative to the simple delay lines ordered for CTF3.

Igor presented the parameters for a 30 GHz CTF3 RF pulse compression using SLED II. A single stage system would be limited to a comression ratio of about 6.  A two-stage pulse compression system could obtain a factor 10.

copy of his transparencies (pdf format)

The following discussion stated that a compression factor 5-10 is very interesting since it brings the required RF power for a 30GHz test stand much closer to present day levels.


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