Horizon Electro
Horizon Electrodynamics LLC

Gyrotron and quasi-optical engineering consulting

Horizon Electro provides engineering consulting for high-power gyrotrons and the quasi-optical systems that couple their power out efficiently. Available for design work, analysis, and reviews on a contract basis, from early concept through hardware handoff.

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DesignLaunchers, mirrors, mode converters
AnalysisPhysical-optics modeling and verification
ReviewFrom early concept through hardware handoff
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.

Getting this right sets the tube's overall efficiency and the purity of its output beam, and it's one of the more specialized problems in gyrotron design. Horizon Electro designs and optimizes these systems.

Millimeter-wave mode pattern on a cylindrical waveguide wall

Quasi-optical Launchers

Launcher wall perturbations synthesized for clean mode content: coupling the high-order rotating cavity mode into free space with minimal diffraction loss and internal stray radiation.

Serpentine quasi-optical beam propagation, plasma colormap

Phase-correcting Mirrors

Shaped mirror sets that reshape the launched beam into a high-Gaussian-content profile at the output window, delivered as fabrication-ready surface profiles.

Volumetric rendering of a quasi-optical internal mode converter field

Physical-optics Modeling

The physical-optics modeling needed to verify performance before hardware gets cut: predicted conversion efficiency, beam quality, and stray radiation.

Founder

Built on the full millimeter-wave stack

Alex Laut
Alex Laut
RF Engineer · Founder

Horizon Electro is Alex Laut, an RF engineer with a background across the full high-power millimeter-wave stack 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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Let's shape your beam

For consulting engagements: design work, analysis, and reviews, from early concept through hardware handoff.