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An extended interaction frequency-locking oscillator based on carbon nanotube (CNT) cold cathode is proposed to overcome locked-frequency limits of the conventional oscillator. Compared with the conventional oscillators, the oscillation frequency is locked by a modulation electron beam, which can be obtained in a field emission CNT cold cathode electron gun. The frequency-locking signal does not enter the high-frequency (HF) system but imposes an additional HF electric field on the cathode surface by a microstrip structure, which consumes considerably less power to lock the oscillation frequency. A ladder structure extended interaction oscillator operating in 2π mode is numerically investigated by three-dimensional Particle-In-Cell simulation code. By analysing the impacts of different frequency-locking power on the locked ranges, the results show that the average output power of 30.6 W is achieved at 35.11 GHz when the frequency-locking power consumption is 460 mW. The 3-dB bandwidth of a frequency-locking region reaches 100 MHz.
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