Abstract:
In gyrotron devices, pitch factor and efficiency are directly proportional. When the pitch factor is increased, however, a larger starting current is needed. The available power supply thus limits the pitch factor and subsequently, the efficiency of the device. The present invention is a gyrotron device in which the pitch factor is adjustable. When starting the gyrotron the pitch factor is set to a low level and only a small starting current is required. After the device has been started, the pitch factor can be increased to increase the oscillation efficiency.
Abstract:
A sub-nanosecond rise time megavolt pulse generator is disclosed. The generator utilizes an induction energy store together with electron beams for generating a sub-nanosecond high voltage pulse wave-front. The electron beams are deflected to establish the wave-front. In a preferred form multiple electron beams together with a waveguide of particular shape provide simultaneous converging wave-fronts that are directed to a local area.
Abstract:
An electron beam device which includes a vacuum enclosure which houses an electron gun for producing an annular beam of helically rotating electrons, an iris-loaded waveguide which is supplied with high frequency power and serves to create a high frequency electromagnetic field along the axis of the beam which has a longitudinal electric field component along the beam axis, and a resonator which abstracts high frequency energy from the beam. A coil surrounds the vacuum enclosure to provide a magnetic field of increasing strength with distance downstream in the region of the iris-loaded waveguards whereby the angular velocity of the electrons in the beam is increased with little change in the axial velocity.
Abstract:
An electron-beam tube for generating high microwave power at high frequencies comprises a fast-wave circuit such as a hollow waveguide. The circuit wave has a component of electric field perpendicular to its propagation axis. This field interacts with motions of the electrons transverse to the axis, in particular cyclotron rotation in an axial magnetic field. The above features are common to the well-known "gyrotrons".In the inventive tube the fast-wave circuit has means for locking a linearly polarized transverse-electric mode to the orientation of a circuit member such as the ridge in a ridged waveguide. The member (ridge) rotates spirally with distance along the guide. The added periodicity permits interaction with a space harmonic of the circuit wave. The -1 harmonic has a dispersion characteristic which provides beam-wave interaction over a wider frequency range than is possible in prior-art tubes of the gyrotron type.
Abstract:
A wide band travelling wave amplifier including an input waveguide coaxia disposed about an interaction waveguide. Both waveguides are tapered with the same direction of increasing cross-section. The interaction waveguide is a high-pass filter while the input waveguide is a low pass filter. The input waveguide is positioned relative to the interaction waveguide so that each cutoff plane in the input waveguide corresponding to a given frequency, .omega..sub.c, is displaced in the direction of increasing cross-section from a cutoff plane in the interaction waveguide corresponding to .omega..sub.c where .omega..sub.c is any frequency in the frequency band of the amplifier. A slot, disposed between the cutoff planes corresponding to .omega..sub.c couples the .omega..sub.c frequency component of an input wave from the input waveguide to the interaction waveguide.
Abstract:
A gyrocon deflection system can provide circular beam deflection using a single RF coupler, without providing a phase difference between the two beam deflection signals to account for electron beam transit time between the two sets of deflection plates. The two sets of deflection plates are internally connected pairwise together so that both deflection regions are in RF phase, and the midplanes of the two sets are spaced 90.degree. apart electrically at the desired operating voltage and frequency.
Abstract:
A circuitless particle beam device for relatively high frequency amplifierr oscillator applications that eliminates the requirement for an internal RF slow wave structure. A circularly polarized RF energy wave propagates on a relatively high density particle beam within an oversized waveguide and interacts with the beam which exhibits a relatively high dielectric constant. The high density beam acts as an active dielectric waveguide serving the dual purpose of a slow wave circuit and amplification source, and accordingly guides and amplifies the RF energy when a condition of beam and wave synchronism is met.
Abstract:
A gyrotron cavity resonator is connected smoothly and directly to an output waveguide with a very gradually tapered wall so that values of external Q lower than twice the diffraction limit are obtainable.
Abstract:
Applying a thin film coating to the surface of a workpiece, in particular, applying a coating of titanium nitride to a klystron window by means of a crossed-field diode sputtering array. The array is comprised of a cohesive group of numerous small hollow electrically conducting cylinders and is mounted so that the open ends of the cylinders on one side of the group are adjacent a titanium cathode plate. The workpiece is mounted so as to face the open ends of the other side of the group. A magnetic field is applied to the array so as to be coaxial with the cylinders and a potential is applied across the cylinders and the cathode plate, the cylinders as an anode being positive with respect to the cathode plate. The cylinders, the cathode plate and the workpiece are situated in an atmosphere of nitrogen which becomes ionized such as by field emission because of the electric field between the cylinders and cathode plate, thereby establishing an anode-cathode discharge that results in sputtering of the titanium plate. The sputtered titanium coats the workpiece and chemically combines with the nitrogen to form a titanium nitride coating on the workpiece. Gas pressure, gas mixtures, cathode material composition, voltages applied to the cathode and anode, the magnetic field, cathode, anode and workpiece spacing, and the aspect ratio (ratio of length to inner diameter) of the anode cylinders, all may be controlled to provide consistent optimum thin film coatings of various compositions and thicknesses. Another facet of the disclosure is the coating of microwave components per se with titanium nitride to reduce multipactoring under operating conditions of the components.
Abstract:
Amplifying and oscillating devices wherein an element beam from an appropriate electron gun is directed through an apertured microwave cavity resonator means and bombards a coaxially mounted semiconductor p-n junction. In the case of an amplifier, an input r-f signal is coupled into the cavity resonator and modulates the electron beam. In the case of an oscillator, a pair of closely coupled microwave cavities is used to achieve the feedback essential to oscillation. In either case, a microwave cavity resonator means can be tuned mechanically or thermally.