Recent progress on 7 GHz pulsed magnicon amplifier

120 MW, 800 MHz Magnicon for a Future Muon Collider

“…The magnicon tube developed for this application is a frequency doubler, or second harmonic amplifier, operating at a frequency of 7 GHz [5,6]. This magnicon has demonstrated experimentally an output power of 55 MW, an efficiency of 56%, and a gain of ~70 dB in a 1 µsec pulses, in very good agreement with simulation results [7,8]. Another frequency-doubling magnicon amplifier at the NLC frequency of 11.424 GHz has been designed and built in a collaboration between Omega-P, Inc and Naval Research Laboratory (NRL).…”

20-MW Magnicon for ILC

“…A second magnicon is a frequency doubler (or 2 nd harmonic amplifier), operating at a frequency of 7 GHz [10,11]. This tube has demonstrated experimentally an output power of 55 MW, an efficiency of 56%, and a gain of ~70 dB in 1 μsec pulses, in very good agreement with simulation results [4,12]. Another frequency-doubling magnicon amplifier [5] at the NLC frequency of 11.424 GHz has been designed and built in a collaboration between Omega-P, Inc. and Naval Research Laboratory (NRL).…”