Improved traveling wave tubes
Abstract
After a brief description of how a typical TWT works, multi-stage depressed collectors (MDC) are discussed. A quick method for computing the expected efficiency of a well engineered TWT is outlined to aid in estimating power supply needs. Applications of improved TWTs and a new power supply are suggested.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- March 1980
- Bibcode:
- 1980STIN...8022598B
- Keywords:
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- Electron Energy;
- Linear Amplifiers;
- Performance Prediction;
- Power Conditioning;
- Traveling Wave Tubes;
- Cathodes;
- Electron Beams;
- Electron Bunching;
- Electronic Countermeasures;
- Energy Dissipation;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering