Performance characteristics of an MSDC IOT amplifier

Author

McCune, Earl ; Yates, Chris ; Li, Yanxia

Author_Institution

Microwave Power Eng., San Jose, CA, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2-4 May 2000

Abstract

CPI EIMAC has provided inductive output tube (IOT) amplifier systems for the television broadcast market since 1988. The key performance advantage IOT amplifiers achieve over other high power UHF amplifier technologies are superior DC to RF power conversion efficiency. Efforts continue to further improve the power conversion efficiency of IOT amplifiers by employing multi-staged depressed collector (MSDC) technology. EIMAC has developed such an amplifier based on the well established K2D60 IOT slated for the digital television service. The MSDC collector design utilizes principles evolved from the VKP-7990 MSDC klystron development program. The purpose of this proposed paper is to illustrate EIMAC´s development efforts and provide test performance results of a MSDC IOT amplifier (K3D60).

Keywords

UHF power amplifiers; UHF tubes; digital television; television transmitters; CPI EIMAC; DC to RF power conversion efficiency; K3D60; MSDC IOT amplifier; collector design; digital television; inductive output tube amplifier system; multi-staged depressed collector technology; performance characteristics; television broadcast; Digital TV; High power amplifiers; Microwave amplifiers; Power amplifiers; Power conversion; Power generation; Pulse amplifiers; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency amplifiers; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vacuum Electronics Conference, 2000. Abstracts. International

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5987-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OVE:EC.2000.847405

Filename

847405