High Power Microwave Tube Transmitters

Supplied by Jim Lux

William North

Los Alamos National Lab

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Cover and Table of contents (554K northintro.pdf)

1 - Introduction (75K north1.pdf)

2 - The Transmitter (746K north2.pdf)

3 - High-Power Microwave-Tube Transmitter RF Circuit (1.14M north3.pdf)

4 - Transmitter Engineering and the 'ilities (1.08M north4.pdf)

5 - And Now a Word From the Sponsor (215K north5.pdf)
(about requirements and acceptance tests)

6 - What Makes Resistors Hot? (359K north6.pdf)

7 - High-Voltage Insulation (682K north7.pdf)

8 - Pulse Modulators (323K north8.pdf)

9 - Cathode Pulsers: Line-Type Modulators (4.88M north9.pdf)
(Blumlein, Marx, and Pulse Forming Nets, switches (spark gaps), etc.)

10 - Cathode Pulsers: Hard-Tube Modulators (3.6M north10.pdf)

11 - Modulating-Anode Pulsers (2.4M north11.pdf)

12 - Control-Grid Modulators (1.2M north12.pdf)

13 - Charge Diverters: the Electronic Crowbar (703K north13.pdf)

14 - High-Voltage AC/DC Conversion, or Rectification (1.14M north14.pdf)

15 - Variable-Voltage Devices (807K north15.pdf)

16 - Electronics Voltage Regulators (789K north16.pdf)

17 - Switchgear and Substations (366K north17.pdf)

18 - Switch-Mode Electronic Power Conditioning (1.66M north18.pdf)

19 - Thermal Management (1.18M north19.pdf)

20 - Transmitter Control, Monitoring, and Interlocking (2.08M north20.pdf)

Index - (288K northindex.pdf)

The entire 26 Meg file in a single PDF (25.9M northrept.pdf)

hv/north.htm - 3 Jan 2002 - Jim Lux
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