A Ku-Band Compact Disk-Beam Relativistic Klystron Oscillator Operating at Low Guiding Magnetic Field

The disk-beam relativistic klystron oscillator (DB-RKO) with the radial-line high frequency structure is one of the attractive high power microwave (HPM) sources due to its specific virtues of weak space-charge effect, high power handling capacity and strong electron collection ability. However, such a device generally exhibits a bulky volume in the radial direction, retarding its actual applications in some compact occasions. Besides, it usually saturates slowly because of the insufficient beam-wave coupling strength. For this purpose, a compact DB-RKO with a rapid saturation process is proposed and physically designed in this paper. By compressing the axial width of the electron beam drift tube suitably, the beam-wave coupling strength is enhanced clearly and the saturation process is accelerated significantly. The whole beam-wave interaction structure is shortened with a radial length of about 5 cm. Besides, in order to increase the device compactness further, an improved magnetic-excited method is presented to enhance the magnetic field in the diode area by introducing a pair of soft-magnets. Furthermore, with the guiding of a low magnetic field of 0.4 T, the compact DB-RKO is experimentally demonstrated to be capable of generating Ku-band HPM radiations with a peak power of 810 MW, a power conversion efficiency of 28%, a center frequency of 14.19 GHz and a pulse duration of about 27 ns. The proposed DB-RKO is promising for the package of the permanent magnets which are preliminarily designed in this paper.

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