Modern multistage depressed collectors—A review
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in Proceedings of the IEEE
- Vol. 70 (11) , 1325-1334
- https://doi.org/10.1109/PROC.1982.12481
Abstract
Well performing multistage depressed collectors (MDC's) have been developed for traveling-wave tubes (TWT) in an sizes fitting the requirements of wide-band countermeasures, radars, and ground and space communications. In the case of NASA-type symmetric collectors, rigorous analytical tools were developed that permit accurate a priori designs of MDC's for any given helix-type tube. Although only few verified cases of MDC's augmenting communications klystrons are known, the resulting performance and available theories indicate significant gains in reducing power consumption by TV and other klystron amplifiers without the deleterious effects of backstreaming.Keywords
This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: