Title :
Design and development of 5-MW X-band klystron for medical and cargo screening applications
Author :
Shabazian, Andy ; Begum, Rasheda ; Stockwell, Bradford C.
Author_Institution :
Commun. & Power Ind., Inc., Palo Alto, CA, USA
Abstract :
CPI has successfully completed a development program to design and build a 5MW X-band klystron for medical and cargo screening applications. The VKX-8253A amplifier is water-cooled, solenoid focused, fixed tuned klystron. SN-001 was built and tested in 2011 and demonstrated 5.4MW of peak and 18kW of average RF power at 9.3 GHz. The design approach and the experimental results will be discussed in this paper.
Keywords :
klystrons; microwave amplifiers; solenoids; current 8253 A; frequency 9.3 GHz; power 5 MW; power 5.4 MW; Cathodes; Cavity resonators; Klystrons; Power generation; Radio frequency; Structural beams; Tuners; Construction techniques; Klystron high power amplifier; RF circuit; X-band;
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
DOI :
10.1109/IVEC.2012.6262117
