Abstract:
The light which is emitted from the output screen of an image intensifier and passed through a subsequent output objective, is converted into an electrical signal by means of a photomultiplier tube or an image pick-up tube. The noise or modulation content of the electrical signal are measured. An optimum adjustment of the focussing position of the output objective and the magnitude of the focussing voltage applied to the imge intensifier, cause the noise or modulation content to attain an extreme value, e.g. a maximum. The focussing voltage and the focussing position of the output objective are iteratively adjusted.
Abstract:
Secondary electrons emitted from an electron-collecting electrode of a vacuum tube degrade the performance. Emission of high-speed secondaries is reduced by coating the electron-collecting surface with a material of low atomic number. Emission of low-speed secondaries is a less predictable function of the surface material and structure. The invention comprises a coating of aluminum boride or similar substance, which has low secondary emission and is also easy to outgas.
Abstract:
A reflex tetrode device for efficiently generating intense, pulsed unidirional ion beams. The device includes two thin, semitransparent anodes spaced from a real cathode which is maintained at ground potential. The first anode is spaced from and faces the real cathode. The second anode is spaced a short distance from the first anode and a virtual cathode is formed beyond the second anode when a sufficiently high electron current flows from the real cathode and through the anodes. The anodes are ring-like or disc-like structures secured to the edges of a support member with their planes perpendicular to the axis of the device between the real and virtual cathodes. The anode structure (i.e., the support member together with the two anodes) is connected to a pulsed high-voltage generator which is operated in positive polarity. Consequently, both anodes are at the same positive potential. The first anode, because of its material, does not readily form an ionic plasma when electrons pass through it, but the second anode does.
Abstract:
An electron emitter comprises field emitter zones formed by projections of field emissive material separated by regions which are not field emissive. An extractor electrode for applying an electric field to the projections and a focus electrode have openings aligned with the emitter zones and material particles aligned with the non-emissive regions. The electrodes form, when suitably energised electron focussing fields to focus electrons emitted from the zones.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for preventing oscillations in high-current electron guns. Spurious oscillations frequently occur as a result of interaction of the electron stream with the fields of resonant modes of the gun structure. The resonant impedances of the modes are lowered by damping with lossy dielectric or resistive materials which are suited to the high temperature and vacuum environment of electron guns. The lossy materials are located in places shielded from high electric fields applied to the gun. Lossy dielectric materials which are D.C. insulators may be used as insulating supports for gun electrodes.
Abstract:
A fundamental coupled cavity travelling wave tube including between electron gun and collector a stack of apertured plates assembled to provide a series of successive cavities coupled for the fundamental mode of operation and in which there is a magnetic pole piece at each nth cavity (n is an integer greater than unity), constituted by a relatively thick apertured ferromagnetic plate between two thinner ferro-magnetic apertured plates, the thinner plates extending the magnetic path provided by the thicker plate towards the electron beam path.
Abstract:
An electron discharge device includes a cathode for producing electrons, a target for collecting said electrons and an electron focusing system for focusing the electrons from said cathode into a beam directed to said target. The focusing system includes a member having an aperture for the passage of the beam and a charge retaining surface surrounding said aperture on which in operation of the tube unfocused electrons from said cathode impinge, said surface having such a coefficient of secondaryelectron emission for the energy of the cathode electrons under the rated operated conditions of the device that unfocused electrons tend to cause said surface to charge to a potential which will focus said electrons to pass through said aperture.
Abstract:
A permanent magnetic focusing device for periodically guiding the electron beams of multicavity klystrons comprising axially arranged magnets that are radially magnetized in the same sense.