Development of high-power broadband Ka-band cascaded-TWT

Author

Khanh Nguyen ; Pershing, Dean ; Pasour, John ; Ludeking, Lars ; Wright, Edward ; Myers, Robert ; Vlasov, A. ; Chernyavskiy, I. ; Abe, David K. ; Levush, Baruch ; Petillo, John ; Chernin, D.

Author_Institution

Beam-Wave Res., Inc., Bethesda, MD, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

21-23 May 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Progress on the demonstration of a high power broadband three-beam Ka-band cascaded traveling-wave tube (TWT) prototype is presented. The amplifier will be driven by an electron gun (0.6 A × 3, 20 kV) adapted from our 18-beam multiple-beam klystron gun design. Both serpentine and folded-waveguide versions of the cascaded-TWT have been evaluated. The expected peak RF output power is 4.5 kW with 100 W of drive power at a frequency of 30 GHz. The minimum output power is 3 kW over a 5 GHz frequency band (4 kW over > 2 GHz).

Keywords

electron guns; klystrons; microwave amplifiers; travelling wave tubes; 18-beam multiple-beam klystron gun design; amplifier; electron gun; folded-waveguide versions; frequency 30 GHz; frequency 5 GHz; high power broadband three-beam Ka-band cascaded traveling-wave tube Development; high-power broadband ka-band cascaded-TWT development; power 100 W; power 3 kW; power 4.5 kW; serpentine versions; Broadband amplifiers; Fabrication; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Prototypes; Radio frequency; TWT; broadband; cascaded amplifier; folded-waveguide; high-power; multiple-beam; power booster; serpentine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC), 2013 IEEE 14th International

Conference_Location

Paris

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5976-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IVEC.2013.6571118

Filename

6571118