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PROGRAM
Monday – June 23rd
Morning Session (Chair: S. Gold)
8:00
Opening Remarks
V. L. Granatstein, General Chair
8:10
Invited Talk: The TESLA RF System
8:50
Invited Talk: SLAC RF Source Research at X-Band
9:30
Coffee break
9:50
A MAGIC-3D Design of a 11.4 GHz, 150-MW, High Average
Power, Double-Sheet Beam, PPM-Focused Klystron
S. Choroba
D. Sprehn
G. Caryotakis
10 10 A 71 dB Gain, High Efficiency Relativistic Klystron Using
a High Current Linear Accelerator Traveling Wave Buncher
Output Structure
J. Haimson
10:40 Invited Talk: Current HPM Source Research
T. Spencer
11:20 Round Table Discussion: Long-Pulse High-Power
Microwave Sources at the GW Level
Moderator: T. Spencer
12:00 Lunch Break
Afternoon Session (Chair: G. Nusinovich)
2:00
Invited Talk: Telemetry, Tracking, and Command
of Deep Space
M. A. Kodis
2:40
Invited Talk: Multiple-Beam Klystrons and Traveling-Wave
Tubes: Do They Exclude or Complement Each Other?
(This paper was presented in brief by G. Nusinovich)
2:55
Invited Talk:
3:20
Coffee break
3:40
Progress in the development of a 4-cavity, 2nd-harmonic
coaxial relativistic gyroklystron
4:00
34 GHz, 45 MW Pulsed Magnicon: First Results
4:20
Development of a High Power Multiple Beam Gun
4:40
Design of an X-Band 50 MW Multiple Beam Klystron
5:00
A Gridded Electron Gun for a Sheet Beam Klystron
M. Read
5:20
Round Table Discussion: Multiple-Beam Amplifiers
Moderator: B. Levush
Multiple-beam Amplifier Development at NRL
E. A. Gelvich
D. Abe
W. Lawson
J. L. Hirshfield
L. Ives
P. Ferguson
Evening Session (Chair: N. C. Luhmann, Jr.)
A Stroll Down Memory Lane: The Childhood of Microwave Tubes
6:00
American TWTs in the 1950’s
C. Birdsall
6:30
Old Know-How in Helix TWTs Developed in the USSR
7:30
Dinner
Yu. N. Pchelnikov
Tuesday – June 24th
Morning Session (Chair: T. M. Antonsen, Jr.)
8:00
Invited Talk: 3-D Design Tools for Vacuum Electron Devices
8:40
TESLA: Large-Signal Simulation Code for Klystrons
9:00
Computer Aided Design of Depressed Collectors for High
Power Electron Tubes
9:20
Coffee break
9:40
Advanced Magnetron Injection Guns for Coaxial Gyrotrons
and Gyroklystrons
A. N. Vlasov
10:00 X-Band Triaxial Klystron
A. Singh
M. Read
J. Pasour
10:20 Effect of RF Parameters on Breakdown Limits in
High-vacuum X-Band Structures
V. Dolgashev
10:40 A New Version of Passive Pulse Compressors
11:00 Round Table Discussion: RF Breakdown
B. Levush
A. Phelps
Moderator: V. Dolgashev
12:00 Lunch Break
Afternoon Session (Chair: V. L. Granatstein)
2:00
Invited Talk: Recent Advances in RF Pulse Compressor
Systems at SLAC
S. Tantawi
2:40
Active RF Pulse Compressor with a Ferroelectric Switch
J. L. Hirshfield
3:00
Active RF Pulse Compressor at 11.4 GHz Using
Plasma Switches
J. L. Hirshfield
3:20
A Delay Line for Compression of Electromagnetic Pulses
3:40
Coffee break
4:00
Invited Talk: The 10 MW ECRH and CD System for W7-X
4:40
Test Results for a 140 GHz, 1 MW Gyrotron
5:00
Heating of Contaminants on Microwave Windows
H. Bosman
5:20
Harmonic Gain and Noise in Frequency Multiplying
Gyro-amplifiers
J. Rodgers
Yu. N. Pchelnikov
V. Erckmann
H. Jory
6:30 – 7:30 Poster Session (with wine and cheese reception)
7:30
Banquet
Poster presentations
J. Verboncouer, (UC Berkeley, CA, USA)
A PIC-MCC Model for the Plasma Focused Electron Beam in the Pasotron
Yu. Bliokh, G. S. Nusinovich, J. Felsteiner, V. L. Granatstein, (Technion, Haifa, Israel and
IREAP, UMd, College Park, MD, USA)
Magnetic lens as a method of the phase-mixed beam matching
O. V. Sinitsyn, G. S. Nusinovich and V. L. Granatstein, (IREAP, UMD, College Park, MD, USA)
Comparison of two gyroklystron (GKL) concepts: four-cavity conventional GKL versus
clustered-cavity GKL
Yu. N. Pchelnikov, (MTS Systems Corp., Sensor Division, Cary, NC, USA)
New Slow-Wave Structures for High-Power Electron Devices
A. D. R. Phelps, I. V. Konoplev, A. W. Cross, and K. Ronald, (University of Strathclyde,
Glasgow, UK)
Study of Coaxial 2D Bragg Structures and Their Potential Applications in Microwave
Electronics
A. D. R. Phelps, H. Yin, A. W. Cross, W. He, and K. Ronald, (University of Strathclyde,
Glasgow, UK)
Cherenkov Radiation from a Pseudospark-sourced Electron Beam
Y. Choyal, T. Watanabe, K. Minami, and V. L. Granatstein, (Niigata University, Niigata City,
Japan; National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki City, Japan; University of Maryland, College
Park, MD, USA)
Analysis of a Large Orbit Backward Wave Oscillator
E. S. Gouveia, W. Lawson, B. Hogan, K. Bharathan and V. L. Granatstein, (IREAP, UMD,
College Park, MD, USA)
Current status of gyroklystron research at the University of Maryland (Part 2)
Y. Miao, T. M. Antonsen, Jr., H. Guo, G. S. Nusinovich, V. L. Granatstein, (IREAP, UMD,
College Park, MD, USA)
Prebunching of electrons in harmonic-multiplying clustered-cavity gyro-amplifiers
M. Yedulla, G. S. Nusinovich, and T. M. Antonsen, Jr., (IREAP, UMD, College Park, MD, USA)
Start current analysis of a 140 GHz CPI gyrotron
Wednesday – June 25th
Morning Session (Chair: J. L. Hirshfield)
8:00
Invited Talk: Quasi-Optics in High-Power Millimeter-Wave
Systems
M. I. Petelin
8:40
Overmoded Waveguide Components for High-Power RF
9:00
Improvement of Selective Properties of Waveguide Bragg
Resonators
9:20
Coffee break
9:40
High Power Tests of X-Band Dielectric-Loaded Accelerating
Structures on the NRL Magnicon Facility
C. D. Nantista
M. Fuks
10:00 Pseudo-Periodic Slow-Wave Structures for High-Power
Microwave Sources (not presented due to visa problem)
V. A. Solntsev
10:20 Invited Talk: Progress in Pasotron Development
Y. Carmel
11:00 Mode Competition in Relativistic Magnetrons and Injection
Locking in kW Magnetrons
11:20 Round Table Discussion: Micro/nano-technology
and THz radiation
S. H. Gold
V. B. Neculaes
Moderator: G. Scheitrum
12:00 Lunch
Afternoon Excursion
Thursday – June 26th
Morning Session (Chair: R. Barker)
8:00
Invited Talk: Spallation Neutron Source RF Source
8:40
Invited Talk: Recent Advances from the DoD
Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative
Consortium on Innovative Vacuum Electronics
9:20
Coffee break
9:40
The UK High Power RF Faraday Partnership Industrial,
Academia and Public Collaboration
L. Lenci
N. C. Luhmann, Jr.
10:00 Gyroklystron-Powered WARLOC Radar
10:20 Cloud Imaging Using the NRL WARLOC Radar
A. D. R. Phelps
B. Danly
A. W. Fliflet
10:40 Relativistic Millimeter-Wave Gyrodevices
V. L. Bratman
11:00 Invited Talk: Mm-Wave Source Development at Los Alamos
B. E. Carlsten
11:30 Initial Tests with an X-band Photoinjector at SLAC
11:50 Closing
A. E. Vlieks