W-band klystron upconverter driven by pseudospark-sourced electron beam

Zhang, Liang and Yin, Huabi and Zhao, Junping and He, Wenlong and Cross, Adrian and Burt, Graeme and Lingwood, Christopher and Paoloni, Claudio (2017) W-band klystron upconverter driven by pseudospark-sourced electron beam. In: 18th International Vacuum Electronics Conference, IVEC 2017, 2017-04-24 - 2017-04-26, London.

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Abstract

In this paper, a three-cavity klystron upconverter operating at W-band is presented. It is predicted to generate 40 W when driven by a 30 kV, 0.2 A electron beam. Pseudosparksourced electron beam after post-acceleration was proposed to be used with the klystron upconverter because it has the advantage of low energy spread, high current density, and no need of any external guiding magnetic field.