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Russian Vacuum Electronics (reference materals).
Ed. M.I. Petelin

GENERATORS OF ULTRASHORT HIGH POWER MICROWAVE PULSES

A.Elchaninov, S. Korovin, I. Pegel, V. Rostov, M. Yalandin
Institute of High-Current Electronics, Tomsk; Institute of Electrophysics, Ekaterinburg
E-mail: radan@ief.uran.ru

In accordance to theoretical studies and optimizations, relativistic backward wave oscillators (BWO's), if properly tapered, can generate short (super-radiation) microwave pulses which peak power exceeds that of the electron beam.

Year

Electron beam driver
(parameters)

Operating mode;
magn. field, Т


 

P max , GW;
(power conversion)


2001

RADAN-303BP
(1 ns, 290 kV, 2 kA)

Single: 1-10 p/min;
5.5 {2}


8 mm


0.25

0.4; (0.7)
{0.3; (0.5)}


2002

SM-3NS
(1 ns, 270 kV, 1.8 kA)

Batch: 1 с *3.5 kHz;
2


8 mm


0.25

0.3; (0.6)


2002

SINUS-150
(4 ns, 330 kV, 2.6 kA)

Single: 5 p/min;
2.5


3 cm


0.6

1.2; (1.4)


2002

SINUS-200
(10 ns, 320 kV, 5.5 kA)

Single: 1 p/min;
5


3 cm


0.65

3; (1.7)


2003

RADAN-303BP М
(1 ns, 290 kV, 2.3 kA)

Single: 1 p/min;
6.5


8 mm


0.2

1.1; (1.6)

Subnanosecond superradiative microwave source based on compact accelerator RADAN.