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- H.P. Bohlen
CPI, Palo Alto, California
- E. Davies, P. Krzeminski, Y. Li, R.N. Tornoe
CPI/EIMAC, San Carlos, California
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The Inductive Output Tube (IOT) is not widely used as an RF power source in particle accelerators yet, but this is about to change rapidly. One reason for this change is the IOT's "coming of age": almost twenty years of successful operation in television transmitters have lead to high refinement of IOT technology and proven reliability. The other reason is the fitness of the IOT to especially meet accelerator requirements: high efficiency, no need for power back-off to achieve fast feed-back regulation, and the possibility to pulse the RF without using a high-voltage modulator. Two classes of IOTs are available so far for application in particle accelerators. One of them consists of UHF external-cavity devices, frequency-tunable and producing output power levels up to 80 kW CW. The second class has been developed only recently. These are L-band IOTs with internal output cavities for 1.3 and 1.5 GHz, respectively, featuring output power levels between 15 and 30 kW CW. Extensive computer simulations have lead to the conclusion that even higher-power IOTs, such as a 300 kW peak-power, long-pulse L-band tube, are feasible.
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