Critical issues in the design of two-stream relativistic klystron amplifiers

Chiping Chen; George Bekefi; Wen Hu; Palmyra Catravas

doi:10.1117/12.175741

13 May 1994 Critical issues in the design of two-stream relativistic klystron amplifiers

Chiping Chen, George Bekefi, Wen Hu, Palmyra Catravas

Proceedings Volume 2154, Intense Microwave Pulses II; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.175741
Event: OE/LASE '94, 1994, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

We examine several critical issues concerning beam formation, efficiency optimization, and short-wavelength effects in the design of recently proposed two-stream relativistic klystron amplifiers. A scheme is proposed for producing two annular relativistic electron beams. The optimal efficiency of two-stream RKAs is found to obey a favorable scaling law, and is estimated to be greater than that of nonrelativistic two-stream amplifiers by one order of magnitude. Short-wavelength effects are shown to be significant at high frequencies.

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Chiping Chen, George Bekefi, Wen Hu, and Palmyra Catravas "Critical issues in the design of two-stream relativistic klystron amplifiers", Proc. SPIE 2154, Intense Microwave Pulses II, (13 May 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.175741

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