Dual Recirculating Planar Crossed-Field Amplifier Design

A dual recirculating planar crossed-field amplifier (RPCFA) has been designed at the University of Michigan. The Dual RPCFA features two slow-wave structures (SWS) in a single anode housing. Using CST particle studio and ANSYS HFSS, the Dual RPCFA is shown to have an increased effective bandwidth and operating gain when compared to the single-sided RPCFA [1] .