Triton Services: Mini Traveling Wave Tubes

Triton Mini Traveling Wave Tubes

Triton began making miniature TWTs in 1972 and in the early 1980s developed the first micro TWT. The company introduced metal-to-ceramic construction which is now the industry standard and was the first to apply fast warm-up technology to miniature TWTs in a production environment. Triton ETD manufactures only helix-type Traveling Wave Tubes with periodic permanent magnet (PPM) focusing providing excellent broadband performance. The majority of Triton ETD TWTs are conduction cooled.

Triton ETD has developed an extensive library of designs for EW, radar and communication transmitters. Miniature and micro TWTs operate from 10 watts to more than 125 watts CW or pulsed output power with gains from 18 to 75 dB. Miniature and micro TWTs require from 2.5 to 5 KV at 50 to 175 mA of cathode current.

TUBE TYPE	FREQUENCY (GHz)	OUTPUT POWER (WATTS)¹	GAIN (dB)²	CATHODE VOLTAGE (KV)³	COLLECTOR VOLTAGE (KV)³	CATHODE CURRENT (AMPS)	GRID / FOCUS VOLTAGE (V)⁴
2438	2.0-6.0	150	30	-3.00	5-stage	0.220	-1500 -15
2441	6.0-18.0	70	60	-4.30	-1.7/-2.8/-3.2	0.160	-
2443	6.0-18.0	100*	38	-4.30	-2.15	0.165	-1000
2414	6.0-18.0	100	31	-6.35	-3.18	0.215	-1000 +0
2345	6.4-17.0	32	43	-3.90	-1.95	0.115	-
2306	6.5-18.0	50	43	-4.30	-2.30	0.130	-
2323	6.5-18.0	50	40	-4.25	-2.295	0.130	-
2169	7.0-17.5	22	47	-3.90	-1.95	0.115	-500 +0
2174	7.0-17.5	22	47	-3.90	-2.2 / -2.7	0.115	-500 +0
2322	7.0-18.0	60	38	-5.20	-2.60	0.160	-1500 +0
2269	7.0-18.0	40	41	-3.98	-2.23	0.135	-800 +0
2315	7.5-16.0	70	40	-5.20	0.81	0.160	-1500 +0
2262	7.9-8.4	50	57	-3.47	-1.74	0.100	-
2268	8.0-18.0	20	37	-3.90	-1.95	0.115	-1000 +0
2208	8.5-10.25	20	40	-2.80	-1.40	0.070	-
2357	8.5-18.0	70	40	-5.20	0.81	0.160	-1500 +0
2223	9.45-10.55	70	55	-4.20	-2.10	0.125	-1000 +0
2298	9.5-9.7	80	54	-4.20	-2.10	0.130	-1000 +0
2320	9.7-15.4	50	47	-4.30	-2.20	0.150	-1000 +0
2309	14.0-14.5	50	50	-4.30	-2.15	0.105	-
2279	14.0-14.5	75	60	-4.70	-2.35	0.130	-
2384	14.0-14.5	80	56	-4.50	-2.25	0.145	-
2233	14.35-15.55	70	55	-4.50	-2.25	0.126	-1000 +0
2205	14.40-15.35	40	56	-4.30	-2.15	0.105	-
2253	18.0-26.5	10	36	-6.50	-3.25	0.035	-
2290	32.0-37.0	20	40	-8.90	-4.45	0.063	-

NOTES:
1] Minimum Output Power Over Bandwidth
2] Minimum Gain Over Bandwidth at Rated Power
3] Voltage Relative to Case / Ground
4] Voltage Relative to Cathode

*Output power equals 100 W at midband and 60 W at band edges.

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