Nonlinear RF spurious in a cylindrical cavity with superconducting endplates

We have developed a method to calculate the distribution of fundamental and spurious fields in a metallic cylindrical cavity with superconducting endplates in which signals at two different frequencies are injected. The nonlinearity in the superconductor produces the typical intermodulation effects...

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Autores: Mateu Mateu, Jordi|||0000-0001-9833-9966, Collado Gómez, Juan Carlos|||0000-0002-8869-2739, Shaw, T J, O'Callaghan Castellà, Juan Manuel|||0000-0002-2740-0202
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2002
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/86344
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/86344
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Microwaves
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Resumo:We have developed a method to calculate the distribution of fundamental and spurious fields in a metallic cylindrical cavity with superconducting endplates in which signals at two different frequencies are injected. The nonlinearity in the superconductor produces the typical intermodulation effects if the frequencies of the injected signals are sufficiently close to each other and near a resonant mode. Our method uses harmonic balance to match the fields in the cavity with the currents on the endplates. The method can be used for a variety of nonlinear models of the superconducting endplate, and could be the base for a nondestructive procedure to extract the nonlinear parameters of an HTS sample from RF measurements. Our analysis is restricted to the TE011 mode, but the method can be applied to any propagating mode in the cylindrical cavity. Closed-form equations for the case of square-law nonlinearities in the superconductor are derived and used to check the validity of the harmonic balance calculation.