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TY - JOUR
T1 - Automatic Optimization of a Klystron Interaction Structure
AU - Lingwood, Christopher
AU - Burt, Graeme
AU - Gunn, Kester
AU - Carter, Richard
AU - Marchesin, Rodolphe
AU - Jensen, Erk
PY - 2013/8
Y1 - 2013/8
N2 - The design of klystrons has long been a manual process guided by experience. However, with well-defined specifications and sufficiently rapid simulation methods, it is a good candidate process for automatic optimization techniques. In this paper, such a technique is evaluated and refined using klystron specific techniques, leading to several designs (with different tradeoffs between efficiency and size) each of a structure comparable with the SLAC B-factory klystrons. The most efficient of which, while only 1% more efficient, is 17.1% shorter.
AB - The design of klystrons has long been a manual process guided by experience. However, with well-defined specifications and sufficiently rapid simulation methods, it is a good candidate process for automatic optimization techniques. In this paper, such a technique is evaluated and refined using klystron specific techniques, leading to several designs (with different tradeoffs between efficiency and size) each of a structure comparable with the SLAC B-factory klystrons. The most efficient of which, while only 1% more efficient, is 17.1% shorter.
KW - Efficiency
KW - evolutionary algorithm (EA)
KW - interaction structure
KW - klystron
KW - klystron design
KW - optimization
U2 - 10.1109/TED.2013.2270975
DO - 10.1109/TED.2013.2270975
M3 - Journal article
VL - 60
SP - 2671
EP - 2676
JO - IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
JF - IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
SN - 0018-9383
IS - 8
ER -