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An axially extracted virtual cathode oscillator driven by a 4 MV, 80 kA elecron beam has been used to generate microwave pulses with an average peak power of 7.5 GW at a frequency of 1.17 GHz. Peak power efficiency was 5.3% and energy efficiency was 2.3%.
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Platt et al. (1989) studied this question.
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