Design of C-band 50 MW klystron with traveling wave output structure

This paper presents the simulation study of a C-band 50 MW klystron with disc-loaded waveguide traveling wave output structure. The electron gun with a perveance of 1.53 P is designed. The gun has a voltage gradient lower than 22.1 kV/mm and a cathode load current lower than 6.3 A/cm2. The beam focusing system is a space-charge balanced flow type with solenoid magnet structure and the focusing beam trajectories have a good laminar condition. A single gap cavity is adopted instead of the traveling wave output structure in the initial beam-wave interaction simulation to decide the parameters of the cavities except the output structure. A C-band disc-loaded waveguide output structure working at /2 mode is designed and the dispersion and interaction impedance of the structure are determined by the CST code. The beam-wave interaction system with disc-loaded waveguide output structure is simulated by a three-dimensional PIC code. More than 50 MW output power is obtained. The efficiency is more than 45% and the saturate gain is more than 50 dB. The voltage gradient of the disc-loaded waveguide output structure is 30 percent less than that of the single gap cavity and there is an increase of 4% in efficiency above that of the single gap cavity.