SIGNIFICANT PULSE-LENGTHENING IN A MULTIGIGAWATT MAGNETICALLY INSULATED TRANSMISSION-LINE OSCILLATOR

Authors
HAWORTH MD BACA G BENFORD JN ENGLERT T HACKETT K HENDRICKS KJ HENLEY D LACOUR M LEMKE RW PRICE D RALPH D SENA M SHIFFLER D SPENCER TA
Citation
Md. Haworth et al., SIGNIFICANT PULSE-LENGTHENING IN A MULTIGIGAWATT MAGNETICALLY INSULATED TRANSMISSION-LINE OSCILLATOR, IEEE transactions on plasma science, 26(3), 1998, pp. 312-319
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Phsycs, Fluid & Plasmas
Journal title
IEEE transactions on plasma science → ACNP
ISSN journal
00933813
Volume
26
Issue
3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
312 - 319
Database
ISI
SICI code
0093-3813(1998)26:3<312:SPIAMM>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
The Air Force Research Laboratory/Phillips Laboratory magnetically ins ulated transmission line oscillator (MILO) is a gigawatt-class, L-band , high-power microwave tube driven by a 500-kV, 60-kA electron beam. A previous version of this tube [1] generated 1.5 GW pulses, but with s ignificant RF pulse shortening. This paper reports on improvements to the tube that have allowed us to increase the output power by 25% and to increase the RF pulse duration by a factor of two and a half.