Recent Developments to the Microwave Tube Simulator Suite

• Published in: IEEE transactions on electron devices Vol. 61; no. 6; pp. 1735 - 1741
• Main Authors: Li, Bin, Li, Jian-Qing, Hu, Quan, Hu, Yu-Lu, Xu, Li, Huang, Tao, Jin, Xiao-Lin, Zhu, Xiao-Fang, Yang, Zhong-Hai
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.06.2014; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Beams (radiation); Cavity resonators; Collector; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; coupled cavity; Design engineering; electron gun; Electron tubes; Finite element method; Hybrid fiber coaxial cables; Integrated software; Joining; Mathematical model; Microwave circuits; Microwave tubes; Physics; simulation; slow wave structure; Three dimensional; traveling wave tubes (TWTs); User interface; User interfaces; traveling wave tubes (TWTs); slow wave structure; microwave tubes; simulation; Collector; coupled cavity; electron gun
• ISSN: 0018-9383; 1557-9646
• DOI: 10.1109/TED.2014.2307058

Recent developments to microwave tube simulator suite (MTSS) are reported in this paper. The MTSS is a full-featured tightly integrated software package for microwave tube analysis and design. It includes a commercial grade user interface and three physics simulators. The electron optics simulator is a finite-element (FE) 2-D and 3-D electrostatic steady-state beam trajectory code that has been used to design beam optics, including electron gun and collector. High-frequency circuit simulator is a full 3-D FE computational electromagnetic code that aims to get the accurate electromagnetic wave character spreading in high-frequency structures, such as dispersion, coupling impedance, and attenuation. Beam wave interaction simulator is a large-signal simulation code for helix traveling wave tubes (TWTs), coupled-cavity TWTs, and klystrons. The first version of MTSS was released in 2007, and all of these three physics simulators and user interface are improved and updated over the past six years. This paper reports on some significant advances to MTSS; new Ribbon style user interface, a lot of component modeling templates, more abundant postprocessing features, parallel version, full 64-bit version, more physics, and computation methods improvement.