Development and testing of a high-average power, 94-GHz gyroklystron

Authors
Danly, BG Blank, M Calame, JP Levush, B Nguyen, KT Pershing, DE Parker, RK Felch, KL James, BG Borchard, P Cahalan, P Chu, TS Jory, HR Hargreaves, TA True, RB Lawson, WG Antonsen, TM
Citation
Bg. Danly et al., Development and testing of a high-average power, 94-GHz gyroklystron, IEEE PLAS S, 28(3), 2000, pp. 713-726
Citations number
45
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE
ISSN journal
00933813 → ACNP
Volume
28
Issue
3
Year of publication
2000
Pages
713 - 726
Database
ISI
SICI code
0093-3813(200006)28:3<713:DATOAH>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
The development of a 10-kW average power, 94-GHz gyroklystron amplifier is described. This average power was obtained with 11% radio frequency (RF) du ty factor and 92-kW peak power in the TE01 circular cavity mode. ThC instan taneous bandwidth was 420 MHz, and the efficiency was 33.5%. Low-duty-facto r testing also yielded a peak power of as much as 115 kW with 600-MHz insta ntaneous bandwidth. This development effort was carried out over the past t hree years and represents record average power performance in an amplifier at this frequency.