S-Band High-Efficiency Metamaterial Microwave Sources

In this paper, we present an S-band compact metamaterial microwave source, which is based on a rectangular output coupler and a new all-metal metamaterial slow-wave structure that has been proposed previously. Due to the reversed Cherenkov radiation of the metamaterial, this metamaterial microwave source can be considered as a new sort of backward wave oscillators (BWOs). The S-band metamaterial microwave source has been further studied and analyzed by using Ansoft HFSS and CST Particle studio particle-in-cell solver. The simulated results show that the electronic efficiency of this S-band metamaterial microwave source can go up to 90% with the peak output power of 4.5 MW. When compared with conventional BWOs, it has obvious advantages such as miniaturization and high electronic efficiency.