A fifty megawatt klystron for the Stanford Linear Collider
The proposed Stanford Linear Collider (SLC) has been designed to provide 50 on 50 GeV electron-positron collisions. The performance of the 240 klystrons driving the two-mile long linac must be upgraded to achieve at least 50 Megawatts of peak power output at a pulse width of 5 µsec and a pulse repetition frequency of 180 pulses per second. The operating frequency of the upgraded linac will continue to be 2856 MHz. A klystron amplifier meeting these new requirements has been designed to operate at 315 KV, µk = 2, with a computed efficiency of slightly greater than 50%. Initial tests indicate the achievement of the basic power objectives; however, observed parasitic instabilities make beam focusing, RF drive frequency and drive level extremely critical. High electric fields in the electron gun, output gap and output window are all potential problems. Steps taken in the design to overcome these problems are discussed and test results are presented.
Development of high peak power klystron in IECAS
Since 1970s the Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IECAS) has successively developed S-band 5 MW, 20 MW and 50 MW klystrons for accelerators. Currently, we are developing the S-band 100 MW klystron. In this paper, the specifications of our typical high peak klystrons are presented and the key technical problems for developing this kind of klystron are discussed.
Simulation study of high power microwave generation by virtual cathode oscillation in coaxial vircator
Summary form only given, as follows. We have numerically simulated the high power microwave generation by virtual cathode oscillation in a coaxial vircator with 3 dimensional PIC code Magic. It is noted that the coaxial vircator has the advantage of an enhancement of power efficiency and gaining of narrow bandwidth frequency. The study is focused on the design of a diode structure for a coaxial vircator suitable for Chundoong IREB pulser (Max. 600 kV, 85 kA, 60 ns). It consists of a center annular cathode, a cylindrical meshed-anode and a reflector. The simulation results showed that the coaxial vircator can indeed be operated at the selected frequency with the narrow bandwidth and the microwave output power strongly depends on the position and geometry of the reflector. From this simulation results we expect that the maximum microwave output power will be obtained by the reflector of 4 cm in width and also 4 cm in distance away from the IREB, where the resonant frequency of microwave from coaxial vircator is simulated to be 6.577 GHz.