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DOI: https://doi.org/10.30898/1684-1719.2025.3.14

DEVELOPMENT OF A MILLIMETER-WAVE CYCLOTRON RESONANCE RECTIFIER

FOR ADVANCED SYSTEMS

OF WIRELESS ENERGY TRANSMISSION

A.P. Gashturi, M.Yu. Glyavin, G.G. Denisov, I.V. Zheleznov,

I.V. Zotova, V.N. Manuilov, S.V. Samsonov, A.S. Sergeev

Federal Research Center A.V. Gaponov-Grekhov Institute of Applied Physics RAS

46 Ul'yanov Street, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia

The paper was received December 12, 2024

Abstract. We discuss the possibility of significantly increasing the operating frequency of cyclotron resonant rectifiers for advanced systems of microwave wireless power transmission. Such systems, also called as cyclotron energy converters, are based on the absorption of a microwave signal with subsequent recovery of the accumulated electron energy. Increasing the frequency of cyclotron energy converter can be reached by using the interaction of a large-radius cylindrical electron beam with a high-order transverse waveguide mode. This principle is well known for gyrotrons; thus, the cyclotron energy converter can be considered as an “inverted” gyrotron that do not generate, but absorb radiation. The paper contains estimations of the efficiency of the cyclotron energy converters with an operating frequency of 35 GHz, as well as a principal design of its main components, including an electron optical system and a two-directional quasi-optical converter for input/output of microwave radiation.

Key words: wireless energy transmission, microwave radiation, cyclotron resonance absorption, gyrotrons

Financing: This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, grant No. 19-79-30071 (continued).

Corresponding author: Zheleznov Ilia Vladimirovich, zheleznoviv@ipfran.ru

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For citation:

Gashturi A.P., Glyavin M.Yu., Denisov G.G., Zheleznov I.V., Zotova I.V., Manuilov V.N., Samsonov S.V., Sergeev A.S. Development of a millimeter-wave cyclotron resonance rectifier for advanced systems of wireless energy transmission // Journal of Radio Electronics. – 2025. – №. 3. https://doi.org/10.30898/1684-1719.2025.3.14 (In Russian)