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Main Authors: Plouin, Juliette, Marchand, Claude, Hamel, Pierrick, Arsenyev, Sergey, Mollard, Antoine, Beunas, Armel, Denis, Philippe, Peauger, Franck
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05493
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author Plouin, Juliette
Marchand, Claude
Hamel, Pierrick
Arsenyev, Sergey
Mollard, Antoine
Beunas, Armel
Denis, Philippe
Peauger, Franck
author_facet Plouin, Juliette
Marchand, Claude
Hamel, Pierrick
Arsenyev, Sergey
Mollard, Antoine
Beunas, Armel
Denis, Philippe
Peauger, Franck
contents A new bunching method, named "kladistron" has been developed at CEA in order to provide high efficiency klystrons. A first "kladistron" prototype was designed and realized. It was adapted from the 4.9 GHz TH2166 from Thales, where the interaction line was transformed from 6 to 16 cavities. The design and fabrication phases of this prototype are developed in this paper. The kladistron prototype was tested in Thales facility. Its efficiency is finally lower (41 %) than expected (55 %), moreover it presents a spurious oscillation at 4.96 GHz. After analysis of the experimental results, it is concluded that the discrepancy between design and real frequencies is the cause for the low efficiency while the spurious oscillation results from a high gain peak at 4.96 GHz.
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spellingShingle Design, fabrication and test of a 5 GHz klystron based on the kladistron principle
Plouin, Juliette
Marchand, Claude
Hamel, Pierrick
Arsenyev, Sergey
Mollard, Antoine
Beunas, Armel
Denis, Philippe
Peauger, Franck
Accelerator Physics
Plasma Physics
A new bunching method, named "kladistron" has been developed at CEA in order to provide high efficiency klystrons. A first "kladistron" prototype was designed and realized. It was adapted from the 4.9 GHz TH2166 from Thales, where the interaction line was transformed from 6 to 16 cavities. The design and fabrication phases of this prototype are developed in this paper. The kladistron prototype was tested in Thales facility. Its efficiency is finally lower (41 %) than expected (55 %), moreover it presents a spurious oscillation at 4.96 GHz. After analysis of the experimental results, it is concluded that the discrepancy between design and real frequencies is the cause for the low efficiency while the spurious oscillation results from a high gain peak at 4.96 GHz.
title Design, fabrication and test of a 5 GHz klystron based on the kladistron principle
topic Accelerator Physics
Plasma Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05493