100 MW active X-band pulse compressor

Author

Vikharev, A.L. ; Gorbachev, A.M. ; Ivanov, O.A. ; Isaev, V.A. ; Kusikov, S.V. ; Kolysko, L. ; Litvak, A.G. ; Petelin, M.I. ; Hirshfield, J.L. ; Nezhevenko, O.A. ; Gold, S.H.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Appl. Phys., Acad. of Sci., Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

1474

Abstract

It is widely accepted that microwave pulse compressors are required to achieve the high power and short pulse lengths for high-gradient linear accelerators. An active pulse compressor has been developed that is able to provide output pulses of at least 100 MW power with pulse duration of 100 ns at X band, and with a power gain of 12-15. The compressor is being evaluated using 1-1.5 μsec pulses from the Omega-P/NRL 11.424 GHz magnicon being operated at NRL. This paper describes design of the compressor and the magnicon-compressor microwave circuit, and gives first experimental results from low power tests

Keywords

accelerator RF systems; linear accelerators; 100 MW; active X-band pulse compressor; active pulse compressor; high-gradient linear accelerators; magnicon-compressor microwave circuit; microwave pulse compressors; Circuit testing; Laboratories; Linear accelerators; Physics; Prototypes; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Switches; Waveguide components; Waveguide transitions;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the 1999

Conference_Location

New York, NY

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5573-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1999.795586

Filename

795586