RF AND MICROWAVE ENGINEERING LABORATORY

DEPT OF ECE, VISVESVARAYA NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, NAGPUR

EXPERIMENT 1
Date:

OBJECTIVE:

To study the characteristics of reflex klystron.

EQUIPMENT REQUIRED:

Klystron Power Supply, microwave bench, Klystron tube Oscillator, isolator, detector, frequency meter
variable attenuator, CRO, CRO probes etc..

THEORY:

Reflex Klystron uses only a single cavity resonator and operates as an oscillator. The various parts included
as electron gunn, resonator, repeller and o/p coupling.

The repeller electrode is at a (-ve) potential and sends the partially bunched electrode beam back to the
resonator cavity.This provides a (+ve) feedback mechanism which supports oscillation.If the voltage
difference between the resonator and repeller is V and the distance id ‘d’,the retardation experienced by the
electron beam may be obtained as A=force/Mass=e/m.

Bunching in reflex Klystron:

Bunching phenomena in a reflex klystron can be utilized by studying electron trajectories in the region
between the resonator and repeller.The bunches formed would deliver power to the resonator at the
instant.When the field retards the bunch.This value corresponds to the various modes of reflex klystron.A
particular mode of operation may be selected by choice of repeller voltage.

PROCEDURE:

 Connect the equipments and components as shown in figure.

 Set variable attenuator to the zero position.
 Set mode selector switch to the AM mode position.
 Keep beam voltage fully anticlockwise and reflector voltage knb to fully clockwise and beam
switch of OFF position.
 Switch on the Klystron power supply to beam voltage of 300V by voltage control knob.
 Keep the amplitude knobe of the AM mode of max position and rotate the reflector voltage
anticlockwise to get the modes as shown in figure.
 The horizontal axis represents the reflector voltage and the vertical axis represents the o/p power.
 By changing the reflector voltage change the o/p power.

Course Instructor Name: Dr. Arvind Kumar Sign:

 RF AND MICROWAVE ENGINEERING LABORATORY
DEPT OF ECE, VISVESVARAYA NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, NAGPUR
OBSERVATIONS AND CALCULATIONS:

CONCLUSION AND RESULTS:

 In this practical ,by performing we conclude that reflex klystron tube is used for high power and
amplitude.
 Frequency and wavelength measurement is done by both formulae and DRFM for open end and
loaded end.

Course Instructor Name: Dr. Arvind Kumar Sign:

 RF AND MICROWAVE ENGINEERING LABORATORY
DEPT OF ECE, VISVESVARAYA NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, NAGPUR

Course Instructor Name: Dr. Arvind Kumar Sign: