{"title":"Design of electron guns and focusing structures for THz linear beam tubes","authors":"M. Read, C. Kory, J. Booske, R. Ives","doi":"10.1109/IVELEC.2008.4556330","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Results are reported for numerical modeling of concepts for non-circular beam formation for near-THz frequency TWTpsilas. Several methods for beam compression were examined, and one method appears promising for producing a 12 kV, 8 mA beam with a cross section 70 times 160 microns, while keeping the cathode loading to about 59 A/cm2. This would be suitable for a 650 GHz TWT. The beam loading is significantly lower than in similar frequency backward wave oscillators (BWO) and should result in much longer cathode lifetimes.","PeriodicalId":113971,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2008-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2008 IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVELEC.2008.4556330","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Results are reported for numerical modeling of concepts for non-circular beam formation for near-THz frequency TWTpsilas. Several methods for beam compression were examined, and one method appears promising for producing a 12 kV, 8 mA beam with a cross section 70 times 160 microns, while keeping the cathode loading to about 59 A/cm2. This would be suitable for a 650 GHz TWT. The beam loading is significantly lower than in similar frequency backward wave oscillators (BWO) and should result in much longer cathode lifetimes.