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Numerical Analysis of Resonant Multipolar Instabilities in High Power Klystrons

J. Cai, I. Syratchev, G. Burt

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Abstract

The monopole monotron instability is a well-known phenomenon in linear beam devices. In recent development of a high-efficiency 50-MW X-band klystron, such instabilities were found and mitigated in a special second-harmonic multicell cavities triplet that is used to improve the klystron's performance. In further simulations of the klystron, using 3-D particle-in-cell computer codes, the more rare and complicated phenomenon, previously unreported in nonrelativistic devices, associated with rotating multipolar monotron instabilities was discovered. In this article, the qualitative and quantitative analysis of these oscillations is presented. Various resonant multipolar instabilities suppression strategies are introduced and discussed in detail.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3617-3621
Number of pages5
JournalIEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Volume68
Issue number7
Early online date4/06/2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31/07/2021

User-defined Keywords

  • Frequency conversion
  • Hybrid modes
  • instability
  • klystron.
  • Klystrons
  • Magnetic resonance
  • Oscillators
  • Solid modeling
  • Trajectory
  • Voltage measurement
  • Electron devices
  • Electronics engineering
  • Computer codes
  • High power klystron
  • High-efficiency
  • Linear beam
  • Nonrelativistic
  • Particle in cell
  • Qualitative and quantitative analysis
  • Second harmonics

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