industrial structure, technology and energy and environmental policy. Deregulation in the different markets is moving foreward. The restructuring of the petroleum and energy industry the last couple of years has been fundamental. Ecommerce will definitivly influence the energy industry and trade patterns. Technology offers significantly increased efficiencies for all energy sources. On the glob...

High-coupling (KL = 3.0) phase-shifted DFB lasers are studied using a transmission-line laser model (TLLM), which includes spatial hole burning (SHB), the material gain spectrum, refractive index dependence on carrier concentration, and random spontaneous emission. Good agreement for CW spectra is shown with other models and experimental results. Dynamic simulations of laser transients show SHB...

The accelerating structure for the superconducting linac booster for the 15 UD Pelletron at IUAC is a Nb QWR cavity, designed and fabricated as a joint collaboration between IUAC and ANL, USA. Initial cavities required for the first linac module were fabricated at ANL. For fabrication of cavities required for future modules a Superconducting Resonator Fabrication Facility has been set up at IUA...

Novel lumped dual-frequency impedance transformers (DFITs) for arbitrary frequency dependent complex loads (FDCLs) are synthesized using the concepts of capacitive and inductive inverters. Such a dual-frequency impedance transformer is constructed with one Pi-shaped lumped inverter and two shunt susceptance blocks at two sides, and get simplified after susceptance merging. The shunt susceptance...

To facilitate the construction of the high-power magnetron, the entire output section, including the quarter wave transformer and window, has been redesigned. The new design is based on standard S band waveguide. The quarter wave transformer was changed to increase the external loading of the tube. Cold test measurements on a tube with the redesigned output section give an external Q of 230. Wo...

Due to conformal capability, research on transmission lines has received much attention lately. Many studies have been reported in the last decade in which transmission lines have been analyzed extensively using various techniques. It is well known that transmission lines are used for transmission of information, but in this case the main aim is to deliver information from generator to receiver...

Phase retarders usually present a strong frequency dependence. We discuss the design and characterization of a terahertz achromatic quarter-wave plate. This wave plate is made from six birefringent quartz plates precisely designed and stacked together. Phase retardation has been measured over the whole terahertz range by terahertz polarimetry. This achromatic wave plate demonstrates a huge freq...

We propose an exact synthesis method which allows the design of dual-band transformers with an arbitrary even number of uniform sections giving equi-ripple impedance matching in two separate bands centered at two arbitrary frequencies. This method is a generalization of the exact Collin-Riblet synthesis of Chebyshev single-band transformers. As compared to a single-band Collin-Riblet transforme...