ABSTRACT
Microwave power tubes span a wide range of applications, operating at frequencies from 300 MHz to 300 GHz with output powers from a few hundred watts to more than 10 MW. Applications range from the familiar to the exotic. The following devices are included under the general description of microwave power tubes:
Klystron, including the reflex and multicavity klystron
Multistage depressed collector (MSDC) klystron
Inductive output tube (IOT)
Traveling wave tube (TWT)
Crossed-field tube
Coaxial magnetron
Gyrotron
Planar triode
High-frequency tetrode
Diacrode
