Modular Integration of a Compact Ku-Band Relativistic Triaxial Klystron Amplifier Packaged With Permanent Magnets for High-Power Microwave Generation

Abstract

To achieve modular integration of relativistic triaxial klystron amplifier (TKA) devices and reduce the energy consumption of the whole high-power microwave (HPM) system, a compact Ku-band TKA packaged with permanent magnets is proposed and investigated in this paper. By optimizing the electromagnetic structure and utilizing TEM mode energy coupling, the length of the uniform magnetic field area required for the Ku-band TKA is reduced from 32 cm to 19.6 cm, with a reduction rate of 39%. By utilizing the NdFeB-N50M mainly magnetized in the ${R}$ direction, a permanent magnet guiding system weighing 90 kg is proposed. Besides, the length of the uniform zone is 20 cm with a longitudinal magnetic field of 0.5 T. Verified by the PIC simulation software CHPIC, an HPM with power of 430 MW and frequency of 14.25 GHz is generated when the diode voltage, current, and the injected microwave power are 340 kV, 4.2 kA, and 15 kW, respectively. The phase jitter of the output microwave is controlled within ${\pm } 5{^\circ }$ , which is beneficial to the coherent power combination of modular integrated TKA devices

Keywords

• Triaxial klystron amplifier (TKA)
• permanent magnets
• TEM mode energy coupling
• coherent power combination