Successful Demonstration of a Sheet Beam Klystron at S-Band

A sheet beam klystron (SBK) has been designed, fabricated, and tested. The prototype klystron operates at 2.856 GHz. For the magnetic focusing a water-cooled solenoid was utilized. In the initial testing a 60 kV pulse to the electron gun resulted in a measured total r.f. output peak power of 6.1 MW....

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Main Authors: Perkins, Michael P., Ferrari, Christopher P., Burke, Alexander T., Gold, Saul, McCarthy, Brian, Mitchell, Adam, Castellini, Ed, Jensen, Aaron, Scheitrum, Glenn, Chen, Gongyin, Howell, David, LaFave, Richard, Wilson, Steven, Miller, Lawrence, Turner, John, Drubka, Robert E.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Klystrons
Magnetic resonance imaging
Particle beams
Plasma measurements
Power measurement
Prototypes
Pulse measurements
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Summary:A sheet beam klystron (SBK) has been designed, fabricated, and tested. The prototype klystron operates at 2.856 GHz. For the magnetic focusing a water-cooled solenoid was utilized. In the initial testing a 60 kV pulse to the electron gun resulted in a measured total r.f. output peak power of 6.1 MW. This is believed to be the first successful experimental demonstration of such a device without interference from the TE mode instability.
ISSN:2576-7208
DOI:10.1109/ICOPS37625.2020.9717923