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Option 2 : High power microwave oscillator
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Download Solution PDFA magnetron is a high power microwave oscillator.
Magnetron:
- A high power microwave oscillator in which the potential energy of an electron cloud near the cathode is converted into R.F. energy in a series of cavity resonators.
- The source of electrons in a magnetron is a heated cathode located on the axis of an anode structure containing a number of microwave resonators.
- The magnetron is an M-tube device while Klystrons and TWT's are O-type devices.
The basic circuit diagram of a magnetron is as shown:
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