K. Nguyen, D. Pershing, J. Pasour, L. Ludeking, E. Wright, R. Myers, A. Vlasov, I. Chernyavskiy, D. Abe, B. Levush, J. Petillo, D. Chernin
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Abstract
Progress on the demonstration of a high power broadband three-beam Ka-band cascaded traveling-wave tube (TWT) prototype is presented. The amplifier will be driven by an electron gun (0.6 A × 3, 20 kV) adapted from our 18-beam multiple-beam klystron gun design. Both serpentine and folded-waveguide versions of the cascaded-TWT have been evaluated. The expected peak RF output power is 4.5 kW with 100 W of drive power at a frequency of 30 GHz. The minimum output power is 3 kW over a 5 GHz frequency band (4 kW over > 2 GHz).