1.3 GHz, 10 MWp long pulse multibeam klystrons: A long heritage and proven reliability

Author

Marchesin, R. ; Beunas, A. ; Legrand, F. ; Thouvenin, P. ; Caplot, M. ; Boghossian, E.

Author_Institution

Thales Electron Devices, Vélizy-Villacoublay, France

fYear

2011

fDate

21-24 Feb. 2011

Firstpage

315

Lastpage

316

Abstract

Thales Electron Devices has been developing and manufacturing 10MW L-band vertical Multi Beam Klystrons (TH1801) for TTF, FLASH and PITZ machines at DESY for more than 10 years. At this point, 8 tubes have been installed at DESY with more than 80 000 hours of cumulated RF operation. All over these years, THALES has been collecting data on MBK tubes behavior which permitted to improve continuously the design margins and reliability. In order to allow horizontal installation in the XFEL tunnel, a horizontal version (TH1802) was fabricated, tested and qualified. The key performance of this tube is its high stability under all various operating conditions.

Keywords

electron beams; klystrons; reliability; FLASH machine; L-band vertical multibeam klystron; MBK tube behavior; PITZ machine; RF operation; TTF machine; Thales electron device; XFEL tunnel; frequency 1.3 GHz; high stability; long pulse multibeam klystron; reliability; Electric fields; Klystrons; L-band; Radio frequency; Reliability; X-ray lasers; XFEL; multi-beam klystron; reliability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC), 2011 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Bangalore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8662-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IVEC.2011.5747002

Filename

5747002