Conveners
Session 5, hot topic, IOT
- Daniel Valuch (CERN)
Edward L. Eisen
(CPI, Palo Alto)
10/05/2012, 08:00
Oral
The Inductive Output Tube (IOT) has played a major role in in the broadcast television industry for many years, due to the IOTs improved efficiency, linearity and reduced footprint compared to the klystron. In the past decade this electron device has found expanded use in both RF accelerator systems and military defense applications. The IOT can provide continuous wave power up to hundreds of...
Michael Boyle
(L-3 Communications Electron Devices)
10/05/2012, 08:45
Oral
L-3 Communications Electron Devices has developed a 90 kW CW 500 MHz IOT for the BNL NSLS-II Booster RF Transmitter System. L-3 has been manufacturing IOTs for use in UHF terrestrial broadcast applications since 1998. Details regarding design modifications to our standard broadcast IOT along with performance data will be presented.