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Microwave Power Tubes

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Microwave power tubes span a wide range of applications, operating at frequencies from 300 MHz to 300 GHz with output powers from a few hundred watts to more than 10 MW. Applications range from the familiar to the exotic. The following devices are included under the general description of microwave power tubes:

  • Klystron, including the reflex and multicavity klystron

  • Multistage depressed collector (MSDC) klystron

  • Klystrode (IOT) tube

  • Traveling wave tube (TWT)

  • Crossed-field tube

  • Coaxial magnetron

  • Gyrotron

  • Planar triode

  • High-frequency tetrode

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Whitaker, J.C. (1994). Microwave Power Tubes. In: Power Vacuum Tubes Handbook. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-9987-2_6

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