Long-pulse modulator development for the superconducting RF Test Facility (STF) At KEK

This paper describes a long-pulse 1.3 GHz klystron modulator that was recently developed for the Superconducting RF Test Facility (STF) at High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK). The modulators is a direct-switched-type design with a 1:15 step-up transformer and a bouncer circuit to compensate for the output pulse droop within ±0.5%; it can drive a klystron with up to 10 MW peak power, 1.5 ms rf pulse width, and up to 5 pps repetition rate. The main features of this modulator are the use of four 50 kW switching power supplies in parallel to charge the storage capacitors to 10 kV, self-healing-type capacitor to realize a compact storage capacitor bank, and a highly reliable IGBT switch which enables elimination of a crowbar circuit. Design considerations and its performance are presented. An IEGT (Injection Enhanced Gate Transistor) switch, composed of six series devices with a rating of 4.5 kV and 2100 A-DC, has been also developed and tested for R to realize a compact modulator.
Proceedings of the 1st International Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC2010, Kyoto, Japan