• DocumentCode
    2898089
  • Title

    A 1MW S-band klystron for weather radar

  • Author

    Gajaria, Deepika ; Balkcum, Adam ; Begum, Rasheda ; Casey, Pat ; Forrest, Scott ; Lenci, Steve

  • Author_Institution
    Commun. & Power Ind., Inc., Palo Alto, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    24-26 April 2012
  • Firstpage
    169
  • Lastpage
    170
  • Abstract
    An air cooled, 1 MW klystron with a tunable bandwidth of 200 MHz centered about 3550 MHz has been developed for weather radar applications. An overview of the design and test results is presented.
  • Keywords
    klystrons; meteorological radar; S-band klystron; bandwidth 200 MHz; power 1 MW; weather radar applications; Cavity resonators; Klystrons; Meteorological radar; Meteorology; Tuners; klystron; weather radar;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC), 2012 IEEE Thirteenth International
  • Conference_Location
    Monterey, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0188-6
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0187-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IVEC.2012.6262118
  • Filename
    6262118