A CW L-Band Micro-Pulse Klystron
- FM Technologies Inc., Chantilly, VA (United States)
The overall goal to save energy and reduce power bills is of great global interest. Worldwide there are tens of thousands of CW klystrons in use that needlessly waste energy and money. It is our intention to provide a green technology to reduce the waste. FM Technologies, Inc. (FMT) is proposing a novel high-power continuous-wave (CW) L-band (1.497 GHz) klystron-like system. This new klystron-like system is composed of four components: (1) a solid-state amplifier to drive a special self-bunching/modulating electron gun , (2) the self-bunching/modulating electron guns output beam yields near constant low energy electrons with an average current that is proportional to the RF input power making it suitable for driving an output cavity, (3) the low energy self-bunched electron beam is focused and post accelerated to the final energy through a system of grids and finally (4) the high energy highly bunched electron beam power is focused into a conventional klystron-like output cavity for an overall high system efficiency (>80%). Furthermore, with the solid-state improved gain (>40dB overall), end-users are now in a familiar territory where convention klystrons can be easily replaced with the new improved L-band micro-pulse klystron (LMPK).
- Research Organization:
- FM Technologies Inc., Chantilly, VA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC0013151
- OSTI ID:
- 1477513
- Type / Phase:
- SBIR (Phase II)
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-FMT-13151
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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