Design of an Electron Gun for a 42 GHz, 200 kW, TE₅₂ Mode Gyrotron using the BFCRAY code

Abstract

This paper describes the design of a magnetron injection gun (MIG) for a 42GHz, 200 kW CW gyrotron operating in the TE_5,2 mode. The design was performed using the BFCRAY code. The basic motivation is discussed and the design of the MIG is presented.

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M V Kartikeyan

M V Kartikeyan was born in Nellore (Andhra Pradesh), India, in 1961. He received BSc degree in physics in 1981 from Andhra University, MSc and PhD degrees in 1985 and 1992 in physics and electronics engineering respectively from Banaras Hindu University. He joined Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Pilani, in 1989 as a Scientist. Since then he is actively engaged in the Design and Development of High Power Microwave Sources.

Dr Kartikeyan worked in Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (FZK), Germany, as a visiting scientist during January-September, 1996. At present, he is working as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute für Hochleistungsimpulse und Mikrowellentechnik (IHM), FZK, Karlsruhe, with a research fellowship from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

His major field of research is the overall design of gyrotrons and other related devices and the analysis and modeling of interaction structures for slow-wave and fast-wave microwave sources.

Dr. Kartikeyan is a member of IETE, IPA and IFTA, India.

E Borie

Edith Borie was born in New York, NY on March 25, 1943. She received the BA in physics from Smith college, Northampton, MA in 1964 and the PhD from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC in 1968. Up to 1982 she worked on theoretical intermediate energy physics at the National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC, the Institut fuer Kernphysik at the University of Mainz, Germany, the Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research, Villigen, Switzerland, the Fernuniversitaet Hagen (as visiting professor), Germany, and the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. In 1984 she moved to the Karlsruhe Research Center and changed fields to the numerical simulation of technical devices, principally gyrotrons. She spent one year as Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the State University of New York, New Paltz, NY. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Karlsruhe.

She is also a member of the American Physical Society, the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi.