Design and Operation of a 2.7 MW Periodic Permanent Magnet Focused X-band Klystron

Abstract

A compact periodic permanent magnet focused 9290 MHz klystron is described that produces 2.7 MW of output power with 52 dB of gain and 43% efficiency. Three klystrons have been manufactured that exhibited a high degree of repeatability and robustness with all meeting the performance requirements. The goal of a first-time-through design success was met through the use of extensive multidimensional modeling of all aspects of the klystron. Agreement between simulated and measured performance was very good.

High power operation of an X-band coaxial multi-beam relativistic klystron amplifier

“…[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] In order to achieve the goal of a GWs RKA operating at X-band, we have presented a coaxial multi-beam relativistic klystron amplifier (CMBK) combining triaxial klystron amplifier (TKA) with multi-beam klystron amplifier. [18][19][20][21][22] Then RF power of 813 MW at X-band was outputted. This paper is organized as follows.…”