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Products > Traveling Wave Tubes - Coupled Cavity Tubes

Primarily used in ground-based or airborne Radar applications, Electron Devices' Coupled Cavity TWTs are produced in the San Carlos, Ca facility and are available at power levels up to 150 KW peak, 5 KW of average power and 10% bandwidth in X and Ku band. Our tubes have found use in a wide variety of Radar systems, both in the U.S. and abroad such as the airborne Radars in the USAF F-14 and the F-16, the British Harrier and the French Mirage as well as the U.S. Army’s TPQ-36 and MPQ-64 Battlefield Surveillance Radars.

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Tube Type Freq GHz Output Power KW Max Duty % Cathode Voltage KV Cathode Current Amps Saturated Gain dB Cooling Collector Voltage KV
L5844 9.7-9.9 20 1.5 -23 4.5 60 Air 12.5/15.5
L5652HI* 9.8-10.3 40.0 3.5 -35 6.0 60 Liq 20.65/13.3/9.1
L5652LO* 9.8-10.3 4.5 25.0 -35 1.4 30 Liq 20.65/13.3/9.1
L5810 9.5-10.0 15.0 0.4 -23.5 4.0 60 Liq 13.0
L5906 9.4-10.0 50.0 1.0 -34 7.0 55 Air 21.6/15.5
L6060 9.0-10.0 60.0 3.5 -34.5 7.6 45 Liq 24.5/17.9

Traveling Wave Tubes & Coupled Cavity Tubes

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