We have an acquaintance who wants to put a roughly 1 KV (2K p-p) sine wave into a roughly 12 pF load near 500 MHz. He wanted us to modify our Pockels Cell driver, but that makes kilovolt or so unipolar gaussian pulses at 0-5 MHz.
Seems like what he wants is an RF power amplifier and some sort of high-Q matching network.
We are not RF people. Any suggestions for him? What to buy, how to match it. He's a researcher so only needs one.
It looks like he wants about 20 KVA into the load, so I'd guess he'd need a kilowatt or two of commercial RF amp, and some interesting matching network.