Experimental Study of Phase Pushing in a Fundamental-Mode Multiple-Beam Klystron

The authors present the results of experimental measurements of the radio frequency phase as a function of cathode voltage for an eight-beam four-cavity multiple-beam klystron (MBK) operated at a driven frequency of 3.25 GHz. The phase-pushing factor was measured in both the small- and large-signal...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on electron devices 2007-05, Vol.54 (5), p.1253-1258
Hauptverfasser: Abe, D.K., Pershing, D.E., Nguyen, K.T., Myers, R.E., Wood, F.N., Levush, B.
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Zusammenfassung:The authors present the results of experimental measurements of the radio frequency phase as a function of cathode voltage for an eight-beam four-cavity multiple-beam klystron (MBK) operated at a driven frequency of 3.25 GHz. The phase-pushing factor was measured in both the small- and large-signal regimes of amplifier operation and was found to be 0.0134deg/V and 0.0148deg/V, respectively. The experiment was also modeled with a simple analytic function and with telegraphist's equations solution for linear beam amplifiers, a multiple-beam 2.5-D nonlinear klystron code, with both methods yielding good agreement with the measured data. The low values for the phase-pushing factor are a benefit of the MBK's high-perveance operation that results in a shorter circuit length relative to single-beam devices of comparable power. These advantages contribute to the growing interest in the use of multiple-beam devices for high-power phase-sensitive applications such as advanced radar and high-data-rate digital communications
ISSN:0018-9383
1557-9646
DOI:10.1109/TED.2007.894240