Triode reflex geometry vircator operating within 3.0 - 4.2 GHz range with efficiency up to 6% is developed and experimentally investigated. Shiftable reflectors are shown to enable frequency tuning and output power control. Radiation frequency and power are analyzed for different cathode-anode gap values and varied reflector positions.
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@article{arxiv.1609.02385,
title = {Experimental Study of a Triode Reflex Geometry Vircator},
author = {Vladimir Baryshevsky and Alexandra Gurinovich and Evgeny Gurnevich and Pavel Molchanov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.02385},
year = {2017}
}