Design and development of a 6 MW peak, 24 kW average power S-band Klystron

Author

Joshi, L.M. ; Meena, Rakesh ; Nangru, Subhash ; Kant, Deepender ; Pal, Debashis ; Lamba, O.S. ; Jindal, Vishnu ; Jangid, Sushil Kumar ; Chakravarthy, D.P. ; Dixit, Kavita

Author_Institution

Council of Sci. & Ind. Res., Central Electron. Eng. Res. Inst., Pilani, India

fYear

2011

fDate

21-24 Feb. 2011

Firstpage

25

Lastpage

26

Abstract

A 6 MW peak, 24 kW average power S-band Klystron is under development at CEERI, Pilani under an MoU between BARC and CEERI. The design of the klystron has been completed. The electron gun has been designed using TRAK and MAGIC codes. RF cavities have been designed using HFSS and CST Microwave Studio while the complete beam wave interaction simulation has been done using MAGIC code. The thermal design of collector and RF window has been done using ANSYS code. A Gun Collector Test Module (GCTM) was developed before making actual klystron to validate gun perveance and thermal design of collector. A high voltage solid state pulsed modulator has been installed for performance evaluation of the tube. The paper will cover the design aspects of the tube and experimental test results of GCTM and klystron.

Keywords

CAD; electron guns; electronic engineering computing; klystrons; microwave tubes; ANSYS code; CST Microwave Studio; HFSS Microwave Studio; MAGIC code; RF cavity; RF window; TRAK code; beam wave interaction simulation; electron gun; gun collector test module; high voltage solid state pulsed modulator; klystron design; power 24 kW; power 6 MW; power S-band klystron; thermal design; tube performance evaluation; Cavity resonators; Couplers; Current measurement; Klystrons; Power generation; Radio frequency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC), 2011 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Bangalore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8662-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IVEC.2011.5746857

Filename

5746857