Sheet Beam Development for mm-Wave Microwave Tubes at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Currently ongoing at Los Alamos National Laboratory is a program to develop high-power, planar 100-300 GHz traveling-wave tubes (TWTs). The promise of planar TWT technology is: 1) the radio-frequency (RF) structures lend themselves well to established micro-fabrication techniques: and 2) by spreadin...

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Main Authors: Russell, S.J., Bishofberger, K.A., Brown, R.W., Carlsten, B.E., Earley, L.M., Haynes, W.B., Kirbie, H.C., Krawczyk, F.L., Romero, F.P., Sigler, F.E., Smirnova, E.L., Wheat, R.M., Wang, Z.-F., Humphries, S., Ferguson, P.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Electron beams
Focusing
Laboratories
Lenses
mm-wave
Periodic structures
Permanent magnets
Radio frequency
sheet beam
Solenoids
Space technology
TWT
Undulators
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Summary:Currently ongoing at Los Alamos National Laboratory is a program to develop high-power, planar 100-300 GHz traveling-wave tubes (TWTs). The promise of planar TWT technology is: 1) the radio-frequency (RF) structures lend themselves well to established micro-fabrication techniques: and 2) by spreading the electron beam in one dimension, we effectively eliminate the beam self force and can transport a high net beam current, resulting in very high-power devices. An enabling technology for this effort is a sheet electron beam source
DOI:10.1109/IVELEC.2006.1666225