摘要:
A slow wave tube is disclosed wherein the signal to be amplified and an harmonic thereof are applied concurrently over at least a portion of the slow wave circuit to increase the RF conversion efficiency of the tube. In a preferred embodiment, the harmonic wave energy is extracted from the output of the tube and fed back onto the slow wave circuit. The slow wave circuit portion, which provides the harmonic interaction with the beam, preferably has a dispersive characteristic such that the harmonic wave energy has a higher phase velocity than the fundamental wave energy for enhanced RF conversion efficiency.
摘要:
A velocity modulation tube is disclosed. The tube includes beam field interaction circuits arranged along the beam path in the following order: prebuncher, floating buncher resonator, and output circuit. The prebuncher, buncher and output circuits are all tuned for a fundamental mode of resonance in the vicinity of the pass band of the tube. An abnormally long drift space, i.e., greater than 90* and preferably about 120* of reduced plasma angle is provided between interaction gaps of the prebuncher and next succeeding floating buncher, whereby the second harmonic space charge component of the resultant current density modulation of the beam produces favorable bunching of the electrons at the entrance of the buncher cavity to obtain enhanced conversion efficiency for the tube.
摘要:
A light-weight permanent magnet beam focus structure for linear beam microwave tubes, such as klystrons and traveling wave tubes, employs a pair of centrally apertured generally cylindrical pole pieces disposed at opposite ends of the tube. The pole pieces are energized by means of a pair of high BXH product, radially polarized, permanently magnetized rings which are surrounded by a magnetically permeable cylindrical yoke. The magnet material is magnetized and loaded such as to have a ratio of Bm/Hm within the range of 0.8 to 1.3. Suitable magnets include the rare earth cobalt magnets, especially samarium cobalt.
摘要:
A velocity modulation microwave tube is disclosed. The tube includes an input circuit, an output circuit and a penultimate resonator circuit disposed along the beam. A pair of second harmonic floating prebuncher resonators are disposed along the beam path intermediate the input circuit and the penultimate resonator. The second harmonic resonators improve the bunching of the beam by moving electrons from the interbunch region of the beam into the bunched region of the beam. A resonator tuned for a fundamental mode of resonance at the fundamental frequency of the tube is interposed between the pair of second harmonic resonators for rebunching the electron bunches of the beam downstream of the first second harmonic cavity. The second harmonic resonators with the fundamental resonator interposed therebetween substantially improve the conversion efficiency of the microwave tube.