Development of an X-band magnicon amplifier for the Next Linear Collider
- Beam Physics Branch, Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, District of Columbia 20375-5346 (United States)
- Sachs/Freeman Associates, Inc., Landover, Maryland 20785 (United States)
- Icarus Research, Inc., P.O. Box 30780, Bethesda, Maryland 20824-0780 (United States)
- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, (Russia) 630090
- Omega-P, Inc., 202008 Yale Station, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 (United States)
- Litton Systems, Inc., Electron Devices Division, San Carlos, California 94070 (United States)
The magnicon is a scanning-beam microwave amplifier that is being developed as a high power, highly efficient microwave source for use in powering the next generation of high gradient electron linear accelerators. In this paper, we first discuss the results from a cold cathode magnicon experiment at 11.12 GHz, driven by a single-shot Marx generator. We then present the design of a new thermionic magnicon experiment to produce more than 50 MW at 11.4 GHz, using a 210 A, 500 kV beam from an ultrahigh convergence thermionic electron gun driven by a rep-rated modulator. This new design has a predicted efficiency in excess of 60{percent}. {copyright} {ital 1997 American Institute of Physics.}
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AI02-94ER40861
- OSTI ID:
- 587036
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9610281--
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 398; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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