Lecture on magnetron and klystron

Re: Accelerators

How much in detail do you want the info? I'm guessing you already found the "pedestrian" description of a klystron from, say, the http://www.lbl.gov/MicroWorlds/ALSTool/ALS_Components/RFSystem/" [Broken].

Zz.

 

Re: Accelerators

Here is a link to the SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) klystron development, and also included are links to other klystron history. One error. Only electron accelerators use klystrons. The Tevatron and other proton accelerators use very large vacuum tube pentodes.
http://www-group.slac.stanford.edu/kly/about.html

 

Re: Accelerators

Magnetrons are oscillators, not amplifiers. For this reason they are not useful on multi-tube machines, because it is very difficult to synchronize them, but they have been phase-locked. They are useful on one-tube electron accelerators such as medical linear accelerators. I believe the Varian medical linacs are powered by a magnetron. I did see one mothballed multi-magnetron linac (in 1966), in Building 20 at MIT. I think it was about 18 MeV.