Electron Guns for Vacuum Electron Devices

Electron guns are an essential component in all vacuum electron devices (VEDs) such as accelerators, gyrotrons, traveling-wave-tubes, and x-ray tubes. Bridge12 can fabricate electron guns for your specific application. Our gyrotrons and TWTs use in-house developed guns that are specifically designed to generate high quality electron beams. Our guns are designed using custom state-of-the-art benchmarked codes that have been verified with experimental results over several different classes of vacuum devices. These guns require extensive thermo-mechanical modeling to achieve high manufacturing tolerances and agreement with the design specifications. We can develop electron guns for your specific requirements through all stages of physics and electrical design, simulation, fabrication and testing.
Magnetron Injection Guns

Magnetron Injection Guns

Magnetron Injection Guns (MIG) provide generate an annular beam and are typically used in gyrotrons. These guns are operated in the temperature limited regime and their current can thus varied by changing the filament current. A 60 kV, 7 A MIG for a W-Band gyrotron is shown on the right. The electron gun has been successfully operated in continous wave mode and generted > 100 kW of power in a W-band gyrotron.

Bridge12 MIG Product Line

We can design, model and fabricate electron guns for your specific need. Some of our typical electron guns for gyrotrons are listed below

Model No.
Voltage
Current
12MID065700 65 kV 7.0 A
12MID025200 25 kV 2.0 A
12MID025030 25 kV 0.3 A
12MID030100 30 kV 1.0 A
12GYO020050 20 kV 0.5 A
Linear Beam Guns for TWTs

Linear Beam Guns for TWTs

TWTs require a linear beam or a sheet electron beam with very precise current at a fixed voltage. These electron guns operate in the space charge limited regime and require accurate design, modeling and assembly to achieve the desired specfications. An electron gun for a V-band TWT is shown on the left. We can design, model and fabricate electron guns for your specific need. Some of our current electron guns for TWTs are listed below.

Bridge12 TWT Electron Gun Product Line

We can design, model and fabricate electron guns for your specific need. Some of our typical electron guns for TWTs are listed below

Model No.
Voltage
Current
12LBG015040 15 kV 0.3 A (Single)
12DBG015040 15 kV 0.3 A (Dual)
12SBG015040 15 kV 0.3 A (Sheet)

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