Abstract:
In an output resonant cavity used with a linear electron beam tube such as an IOT, magnetic material is mounted on walls of the cavity and defines annular channels within which coils are located to provide focusing of an electron beam travelling along the axis of a tube located in apertures in the cavity walls. An inner rim locates the electron beam tube with respect to the cavity.
Abstract:
Nonlinear current modulation of a relativistic electron beam is achieved byts propagation without interruption through a resistive wall type of drift tube assembly within a klystron amplifier. Maximized beam current modulation is thereby attained for a beam propagation distance within a shortened drift tube.
Abstract:
This gun comprises a cathode K, a grid G, and an anode A between which the applied voltages are radio-frequency voltages. The cathode is disposed on the central conductor of a coaxial cavity, facing said grid terminating said cavity. Said cavity is terminated at the other end by a short-circuit and includes a coaxial branch line so as to resonate at two frequencies F.sub.1 and F.sub.2 multiple of f.sub.0, whose beating induces a radio-frequency grid-cathode voltage. Said grid terminates another coaxial cavity whose central conductor is hollow and whose end facing said grid forms the anode. said other coaxial cavity resonator is excited and resonates at a frequency F.sub.0 multiple of f.sub.0, which induces a radio-frequency anode-grid voltage.A proper selection of the frequencies F.sub.0, F.sub.1, F.sub.2 allows to obtain electrons bunches of very short duration.
Abstract:
A radio frequency quadrupole (RFQ), which is a combination of the standard 4-vane and 4-rod designs, with a window or windows cut through mid-portions of the normally solid vanes. The windows decrease the resonant frequency, minimize undesirable mode coupling in the RFQ and result in a smaller and more easily tuned accelerator.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a microwave tube with n (where n is an integer greater than one) parallel, longitudinal electron beams distributed on a ring centered on an axis XX'. The electron beams go through several groups of n cavities. So that each group may resonate on a single frequency, it is provided that the cavities of one and the same group will work in their dominant mode, at one and the same frequency, and will get excited in phase. To this end, the cavities of the input group are excited in phase by an appropriate device external to the tube. The device can be applied to multiple-beam klystrons working at high frequencies.
Abstract:
A system for providing a compact, high power particle accelerator powered by a modulated intense relativistic electron beam. In a preferred embodiment a first source develops a high power intense relativistic electron beam (IREB). A modulating apparatus modulates the IREB with a low power level RF signal to produce a high power MIREB. All of the kinetic energy from the high power MIREB is then stored as a high level of electromagnetic or RF energy in an accelerating apparatus. A particle beam from a source is modulated with the RF signal to establish a phase coherency between the modulated particle beam and the stored RF energy before it is passed through the accelerating apparatus. This phase coherent particle beam is accelerated by the stored RF energy as it drains this energy from the accelerating apparatus during its passage through the accelerating apparatus.
Abstract:
Apparatus and method for generating and controlling the electric field within the cavity of a particle beam accelerator. A power splitter divides a common drive signal into separate branches each driving separate RF amplifiers. The output of each amplifier is coupled, through a circulator, to a separate input launcher within the cavity. The high Q of the cavity causes the signal from each launcher to combine to form an undistorted field pattern within the cavity regardless of small amplitude and phase differences at each launcher. Total power control is maintained by changing the phase in one or more of the separate branches, or by chopping the power applied to the amplifiers in the controlled branches. To improve efficiency, the input launchers in branches which are turned off by the chopping technique may be shorted to ground during the turned off interval.
Abstract:
A tuning structure for a klystron oscillator is provided by a set of holes extending part way through cavity walls of the klystron. The holes provide weakened portions in the cavity walls which permit an inward depression of the walls at the sites of the weakened portions for adjustment of the central frequency of an oscillation band. Thereby, deformable tuning diaphragms, which are employed for altering the oscillation frequency within the oscillation band, need not be deformed for an oscillation at the center of the desired band. Variations in frequency can thereby be accomplished without metal fatigue, such fatigue having occurred when the diaphragm has been utilized for setting the central frequency of the oscillation band.
Abstract:
An RFQ resonator for a linear accelerator having a reduced level of interfering modes and producing a quadrupole mode for focusing, bunching and accelerating beams of heavy charged particles, with the construction being characterized by four elongated resonating rods within a cylinder with the rods being alternately shorted and open electrically to the shell at common ends of the rods to provide an LC parallel resonant circuit when activated by a magnetic field transverse to the longitudinal axis.