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Download or read book Stable High-Power Harmonic Gyro-Amplifiers written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of our Tri-Service University Research Program in Vacuum Electronics has been on basic research issues associated with operating harmonic gyrotron devices as high-power, coherent millimeter-wave amplifiers. Substantial theoretical and experimental progress has been achieved. We introduced the marginal stability design (MSD) procedure(1) for achieving stability in high-performance gyro-TWT's. We also concluded the initial tests of the high power, second-armonic TE21 gyro-TWT amplifier which is based on the MSD procedure and the novel concept that harmonic operation is capable of significantly increasing the output power because the start-oscillation beam current is much higher for the relatively weak harmonic interaction. Indeed, the second-harmonic gyro-TWT amplifier's unprecedented output power of 207 kW exceeded the previous record-level of 120 kW, which was produced by a first-harmonic gyro-TWT. Our amplifier yielded an efficiency of 13%, a saturated gain of 16 dB with a bandwidth of 2% and was stable for zero rf input power. (MM).