Experimental Design To Study RF Pulsed Heating
Experimental Design To Study RF Pulsed Heating
Experimental Design To Study RF Pulsed Heating
1 INTRODUCTION
RF pulsed heating results from local Joule heating on a
metal surface due to surface magnetic fields created from
pulsed RF. Lateral stresses are induced in the material
since the metal cannot expand fast enough. Cyclic stress
results from the pulsing of RF and can lead to metal
fatigue if the stress amplitude is larger than the elastic
limit for the material. This effect represents high power
limitations of metals like copper and may determine
feasible accelerator structures at short wavelengths. For
more information on pulsed heating please refer to the
references [1], [2], [3].
2 EXPERIMENTAL SETUP
Due to the availability of 50 MW X-band klystrons at
SLAC, we designed a circular cylindrical resonant cavity
to be operated in the TE011 mode at 11.424 GHz to study
the effects of pulsed heating on OFE copper. Two such
cavities are used in conjunction with an asymmetric magic
tee in order to protect the klystron from reflected power.
The cavity design presented in this paper is a revised
version compared to the design presented in ref. [1].
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18 G H z ISO L A T O R
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R F SW IT C H
1 8 G H z L P FIL T E R
V O L TM E T E R
Q U A D IF M IX E R
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W IN D O W
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C A V IT Y
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3 COLD-TEST RESULTS
Some problems have arisen during the cold-test phase of
the experiment. Broadband resonances are noticed while
measuring the reflected signal of the TE012 mode. A
representative spectrum is shown in Figure 3. These
broadband resonances change the apparent coupling to the
TE012 mode as well as its unloaded Q. Accurate values for
these quantities cannot be determined at the time of this
writing.
There are two possible explanations for these problems.
One is the coupling aperture for the fundamental mode
greatly affects the coupling of the diagnostic coupler to
the TE012 mode and perhaps introduces spurious modes.
High transmission (-7 dB) is measured from the diagnostic
coupler to the fundamental mode coupler and it is known
that the signal propagates in the fundamental TE 10 mode in
the WR-90 waveguide at 17.8 GHz.
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0.95
Reflection Coefficient
0.9
0.85
0.8
0.75
0.7
0.65
17.74
17.76
17.78
17.8
17.82
17.84
Frequency (GHz)
17.86
17.88
17.9
17.92
0.9
0.8
Reflection Coefficient
0.7
Wire Diam
(.001 in.)
N/A
6.0
Compression
Ratio (%)
N/A
22
Q0
10465
11940
4 CONCLUSION
An experimental design to study RF pulsed heating has
been presented. Cold-test results show some problems
with the initial design.
There are plans to fully
characterize and isolate the effects of these problems and
to design a solution. In the meantime, a high-power test
will be conducted; although, accurate data cannot be
collected from the diagnostic TE012 mode.
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0.3
0.2
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17.74
17.76
17.78
17.8
17.82
17.84
Frequency (GHz)
17.86
17.88
17.9
17.92
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