IPAC2011 - List of Authors (Sah, R.)

Paper	Title	Page
MOPC140	Phase and Frequency Locked Magnetrons for SRF Sources	406
	M.L. Neubauer, M.A.C. Cummings, A. Dudas, R.P. Johnson, R. Sah Muons, Inc, Batavia, USA A. Moretti, M. Popovic Fermilab, Batavia, USA
	Typically, high power sources for accelerator applications are multi-megawatt microwave tubes that may be combined together to form ultra-high-power localized power stations. The RF power is then distributed to multiple strings of cavities through high power waveguide systems which are problematic in terms of expense, efficiency, and reliability. Magnetrons are the lowest cost microwave source in dollars/kW, and they have the highest efficiency (typically greater than 85%). However, the frequency stability and phase stability of magnetrons are not adequate, when magnetrons are used as power sources for accelerators. Novel variable frequency cavity techniques have been developed which will be utilized to phase and frequency lock magnetrons, allowing their use for either individual cavities, or cavity strings. Ferrite or YIG (Yttrium Iron Garnet) materials will be attached in the regions of high magnetic field of radial-vaned, π−mode structures of a selected ordinary magnetron. The microwave characteristics of several materials have been tested with magnetic fields to control the frequency of the magnetron. These results will be presented and an optimum material chosen.

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Phase and Frequency Locked Magnetrons for SRF Sources

406

M.L. Neubauer, M.A.C. Cummings, A. Dudas, R.P. Johnson, R. Sah
Muons, Inc, Batavia, USA
A. Moretti, M. Popovic
Fermilab, Batavia, USA

Typically, high power sources for accelerator applications are multi-megawatt microwave tubes that may be combined together to form ultra-high-power localized power stations. The RF power is then distributed to multiple strings of cavities through high power waveguide systems which are problematic in terms of expense, efficiency, and reliability. Magnetrons are the lowest cost microwave source in dollars/kW, and they have the highest efficiency (typically greater than 85%). However, the frequency stability and phase stability of magnetrons are not adequate, when magnetrons are used as power sources for accelerators. Novel variable frequency cavity techniques have been developed which will be utilized to phase and frequency lock magnetrons, allowing their use for either individual cavities, or cavity strings. Ferrite or YIG (Yttrium Iron Garnet) materials will be attached in the regions of high magnetic field of radial-vaned, π−mode structures of a selected ordinary magnetron. The microwave characteristics of several materials have been tested with magnetic fields to control the frequency of the magnetron. These results will be presented and an optimum material chosen.