A frequency tunable relativistic magnetron with a wide operation regime

Abstract

A frequency tunable relativistic magnetron (RM) with a wide operation regime is proposed. With the all cavity-magnetron axial extraction technique, the RM can output TEM mode with the operating frequency of 4.3 GHz, which is demonstrated as the dominating output mode by theoretical analysis, cold simulations and hot simulations respectively, corresponding to the output power of 466 MW and the power conversion efficiency of 56.4 %. It also can achieve a wide frequency tuning with the bandwidth of 0.96 GHz and the relative bandwidth of 20.8 %, corresponding to the output power of above 400 MW and the power conversion efficiency of above 40 %. Further simulation results show that the RM has strong performance robustness to the perturbations of the electrical parameters and almost all structural parameters except the cathode radius, anode radius and cavity radius, however two methods proposed in this paper can be taken to further improve the RM performance. The performance robustness enables the RM to operate with a wide parameter regime while keeping a good performance. In addition, a GW-level RM with the power conversion efficiency of 55.9 % also can be obtained.