New Development in RF Pulse Compression

Several pulse compression systems have been proposed for future linear collider. Most of these systems require hundreds of kilometers of low-loss waveguide runs. To reduce the waveguide length and improve the efficiency of these systems, components for multimoding, active switches and non-reciprocal elements are being developed. In the multimoded systems a waveguide is utilized several times by sending different signals over different modes. The multimoded components needed for these systems have to be able to handle hundreds of megawatts of rf power at the X-band frequency and above. Consequently, most of these components are overmoded. We present the development of multimoded components required for such systems. We also present the development efforts towards overmoded active component such as switches and overmoded nonreciprocal components such as circulators and isolators.