Intersymbol interference investigations using a 3-D time-dependent traveling wave tube model

For the first time, a physics based computational model has been used to provide a direct description of the effects of the traveling wave tube (TWT) on modulated digital signals. The TWT model comprehensively takes into account the effects of frequency dependent AM/AM and AM/PM conversion, gain and...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on plasma science 2002-02, Vol.30 (1), p.267-273
Main Authors: Kory, C.L., Andro, M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Approximation
Communication
Communication systems
Computational modeling
Digital
Digital electronics
Digital modulation
Distortion
Exact sciences and technology
Frequency conversion
Frequency dependence
Geometry
High power amplifiers
Interference
Intermodulation
Intersymbol interference
Mathematical models
Particle-in-cell method
Physics
Physics computing
Physics of gases, plasmas and electric discharges
Physics of plasmas and electric discharges
Plasma simulation
Predictive models
Ripples
Traveling wave tubes
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Summary:For the first time, a physics based computational model has been used to provide a direct description of the effects of the traveling wave tube (TWT) on modulated digital signals. The TWT model comprehensively takes into account the effects of frequency dependent AM/AM and AM/PM conversion, gain and phase ripple, drive-induced oscillations, harmonic generation, intermodulation products, and backward waves. Thus, signal integrity can be investigated in the presence of these sources of potential distortion as a function of the physical geometry of the high-power amplifier and the operational digital signal. This method promises superior predictive fidelity compared to methods using TWT models based on swept-amplitude and/or swept-frequency data. The fully three-dimensional (3-D) time-dependent, TWT interaction model using the electromagnetic code MAFIA is presented. This model is used to investigate assumptions made in conventional TWT black-box models used in communication system level simulations. To quantitatively demonstrate the effects these approximations have on digital signal performance predictions, including intersymbol interference, direct digital data input into the MAFIA model is compared to the system level analysis tool, SPW, which incorporates these approximations.
ISSN:0093-3813
1939-9375
DOI:10.1109/TPS.2002.1003870