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http://dx.doi.org/10.12673/jant.2017.21.1.66

Implementation of An Water-Cooled High Power Amplifier for Particle Accelerator  

Yoon, Young-Chul (Department of Electronic Engineering, Catholic Kwandong University)
Kim, Young (School of Electronic Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology)
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Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology / v.21, no.1, 2017 , pp. 66-71 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper describes implementation of a 165 MHz, 5 kW RF high power amplifier (HPA) for particle accelerator applications. The HPA consists of a drive amplifier for main amplifiers driving, sixteen 600 W class-AB push-pull power amplifier pallets and Wilkinson power divider/combiner using lumped LC components, which are divided/combined power amplifier pallet outputs. To detected the amplifier circuit of normal and reflected output power conditions, we used a bidirectional coupler. To radiate heat of main power amplifier, we were used an water-cooled copper plates to go through a water for radiation of heat. The HPA of center frequency 165 MHz has archived an efficiency of 62.5 % at 5 kW of power level experimentally.
Keywords
165 MHz amplifier; 5 kW high power amplifier; Class AB; Push-pull; Water cooling;
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