• DocumentCode
    2898057
  • Title

    Design and development of 5-MW X-band klystron for medical and cargo screening applications

  • Author

    Shabazian, Andy ; Begum, Rasheda ; Stockwell, Bradford C.

  • Author_Institution
    Commun. & Power Ind., Inc., Palo Alto, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    24-26 April 2012
  • Firstpage
    167
  • Lastpage
    168
  • Abstract
    CPI has successfully completed a development program to design and build a 5MW X-band klystron for medical and cargo screening applications. The VKX-8253A amplifier is water-cooled, solenoid focused, fixed tuned klystron. SN-001 was built and tested in 2011 and demonstrated 5.4MW of peak and 18kW of average RF power at 9.3 GHz. The design approach and the experimental results will be discussed in this paper.
  • Keywords
    klystrons; microwave amplifiers; solenoids; current 8253 A; frequency 9.3 GHz; power 5 MW; power 5.4 MW; Cathodes; Cavity resonators; Klystrons; Power generation; Radio frequency; Structural beams; Tuners; Construction techniques; Klystron high power amplifier; RF circuit; X-band;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC), 2012 IEEE Thirteenth International
  • Conference_Location
    Monterey, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0188-6
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0187-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IVEC.2012.6262117
  • Filename
    6262117