Fields and trajectories in the magnicon

Author

Tallerico, Paul ; Rees, Daniel

Author_Institution

Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

6-9 May 1991

Firstpage

640

Abstract

The magnicon is a type of deflection-modulated microwave amplifier that has great potential for high-power, high-efficiency microwave generation. The magnicon has two TM/sub 110/ cavities, each with fields rotating at microwave frequencies. The first cavity deflection-modulates an electron beam into an expanding spiral path, and the second extracts kinetic energy from the modulated beam. Static magnetic fields employed in the second cavity produce cyclotron motion at frequencies that are multiples of the microwave frequency. The results of calculations performed on this beam-wave system, with a first-order numerical model, provide guidance for magnicon experimental designs. Field calculations have also been done with the three-dimensional electromagnetic field simulation code, MAFIA.<>

Keywords

electronic engineering computing; microwave amplifiers; microwave generation; microwave tubes; particle accelerators; power amplifiers; MAFIA; TM/sub 110/ cavities; beam-wave system; cyclotron motion; deflection-modulated microwave amplifier; electromagnetic field simulation code; electron beam; electron trajectories; experimental designs; first-order numerical model; high-efficiency microwave generation; magnicon; modulated beam; spiral path; Cyclotrons; Electron beams; High power amplifiers; Kinetic energy; Magnetic fields; Microwave amplifiers; Microwave frequencies; Microwave generation; Optical modulation; Spirals;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1991. Accelerator Science and Technology., Conference Record of the 1991 IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0135-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1991.164389

Filename

164389