Horizon Electro
Horizon Electrodynamics LLC

Gyrotron and quasi-optical engineering consulting

Design, analysis, and independent review for high-power gyrotrons and the quasi-optical systems that couple their power out. In-house coupled-mode, MLFMA, and physical-optics codes, applied with the rigor that megawatt-class hardware demands.

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DesignDimpled launchers, internal mode converters, and quasi-optical systems
AnalysisPhysical-optics modeling and verification
ReviewIndependent review from concept through delivered hardware
Quasi-Optical Design

From cavity mode to Gaussian beam

A gyrotron's cavity generates power in a high-order waveguide mode that has to be converted into a clean, low-loss beam before it can be transmitted or radiated. That conversion happens inside the tube, in the internal mode converter: a quasi-optical launcher that couples the cavity mode into free space, followed by a sequence of shaped mirrors that reshape the resulting beam into a low-order, near-Gaussian profile at the output window.

This conversion sets the tube's overall efficiency and the purity of its output beam, and it is among the most specialized problems in gyrotron design. Horizon Electro designs, optimizes, and verifies these systems.

Volumetric rendering of the field bunching inside a dimpled-wall launcher

Dimpled Launchers

Optimized dimpled-wall launchers that bunch the cavity mode into a compact, sidelobe-free beam at the cut: wall perturbations synthesized and verified with in-house coupled-mode solvers.

Volumetric rendering of a full-wave MLFMA simulation of an internal mode converter: cavity mode through launcher and two mirrors to a Gaussian beam

Internal Mode Converters

Highly efficient launcher-and-mirror systems from cavity mode to Gaussian beam at the window, simulated end to end in a single full-wave MLFMA solve to confirm efficiency and beam quality before hardware is cut.

Millimeter-wave beam propagating through a quasi-optical mirror system

Quasi-optical Systems

Mirror and beam-waveguide systems from gyrotron window to load: matching optics, phase-correcting mirrors, and beam shaping, designed and verified with physical-optics modeling.

Founder

Experience across the full high-power millimeter-wave system

Alex Laut
Alex Laut
RF Engineer · Founder

Horizon Electro is Alex Laut, an RF engineer with experience across the full high-power millimeter-wave system for fusion energy: commissioning high-power mmWave systems and gyrotrons at a national fusion research lab, designing and manufacturing high-power gyrotrons at a commercial gyrotron manufacturer, and, most recently, designing microwave transmission lines at a private fusion energy company. That expertise, including hands-on internal mode converter and quasi-optical design work, is now available on a consulting basis.

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Design, analysis, and independent review for gyrotron and quasi-optical programs, from first concept through delivered hardware.