摘要:
A radiant tube (4) for guiding a charged particle stream (10) has a hollow cylindrical isolation core (6) directly encompassing a beam-guiding hollow volume (8). The isolation core (6) is formed from a dielectrically acting carrier substrate (14) and an electrical conductor (16) held therein. The conductor (16) is divided into a plurality of conductor loops (20) completely encompassing the circumference of the isolation core (6) at different axial positions of the isolation core (6). The conductor loops (20) are galvanically connected to each other.
摘要:
Various embodiments of a vacuum electronic device, a hybrid magnet for a vacuum electronic device and methods of making a hybrid magnet for a vacuum electronic device are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a hybrid magnet for a vacuum electronic device includes a first magnet, a second magnet positioned in spaced-apart relation with the first magnet and defining a gap between the first magnet and the second magnet, and a non-magnetic spacer positioned in a portion of the gap between the first magnet and second magnet and connected to the first magnet and the second magnet.
摘要:
An input circuit of a microwave amplification tube achieves improved instantaneous bandwidth. By directly coupling the transmission line carrying a modulating radio frequency signal to a control grid, a low-Q input circuit is created that increases the fractional bandwidth of the system. A resonant cavity may be used to generate a voltage across the gap between the cathode and the control grid. Alternative geometries are presented whereby the electron beam is emitted from a cathode connected either to the center conductor of the transmission line or to the outer conductor of the transmission line. Alternatively, the electric field of the radio-frequency signal propagating through the transmission line may be used to create a voltage across the gap between the cathode and the control grid without using a resonant cavity. Likewise, alternative geometries are presented by which the electron beam is emitted from a cathode connected either to the center conductor or to the outer conductor of the transmission line.
摘要:
A low energy electron cooling system and method for increasing the phase space intensity and overall intensity of low energy ion beams, including a vacuum chamber to allow electron beam and ion beam merging and separation, a cathode to generate the electron beam, a collector to collect the electron beam, magnetic field generation devices to guide the electrons on their desired trajectories, and electrodes to accelerate and decelerate the electron beam. By overlapping the electron and ion beams, thermal energy is transferred from the ion beam to the electron beam, which allows an increase in the phase space density and overall density of the ion beams. Advantageously, the low energy electron cooling system uses electrodes to set up electrostatic potentials that trap non-beam neutralizing-background-ions longitudinally within the electron cooling region and solenoidal fields that trap the non-beam neutralizing-background-ions radially within the electron cooling region. The trapped non-beam neutralizing-background-ions allow electron cooling currents that are vastly larger than the space charge limit of previous electron cooling devices, which leads to vastly improved functioning of the electron cooling device over previous electron cooling devices.
摘要:
A microscale vacuum electronic device (10) provides for a mechanical modulation of cathode (12) position allowing improved high-frequency modulation of an electron beam (24) useful for vacuum electronic devices such as klystrons, klystrodes, and high frequency triodes.
摘要:
An apparatus for generating a microwave frequency energy includes a cathode for emitting electrons, a first grid for controlling and focusing the flow of electrons from the cathode, a choke structure for serving as a capacitor, wherein the cathode, the first grid and the choke structure define an input cavity functioning as a resonant circuit. The apparatus further includes a trimming resistor, one end of which is connected to the first grid and the other end thereof is connected the cathode, for inducing a bias voltage on the first grid, a second grid provided above the first grid and having a plurality of slots through which the electron beams passing through the slots of the first grid pass, an anode for receiving the electrons passing through the slot of the second grid, a voltage converting means for rectifying an AC input voltage and providing a DC driving voltage to the cathode and the anode, an antenna for extracting the microwave from an output cavity, the output cavity being defined by the second grid and the anode, and a feedback structure extending from the input cavity to the output cavity, for feeding a portion of the microwave frequency energy back to the input cavity.
摘要:
A multi-stage microwave gyrotwystron amplifier is disclosed having two or more stages comprising rectangular cavities to facilitate tuning. The first two stages comprise rectangular tuneable cavities that are oriented orthogonal to each other which produces a homogeneously modulated electron beam that is directed to a cylindrical output cavity which increases its power output as compared to prior art devices havig an output cylindrical cavity excited with a non-homogeneously modulated electron beam.
摘要:
A vacuum tube for handling an r.f. signal having a predetermined frequency range comprises a cathode, a heater, and a non-electron emissive grid. The grid is positioned from the cathode by the distance an emitted electron from the cathode can travel in a quarter cycle of the r.f. signal. Outer and inner metal tubes forming a resonant line of a signal coupler are respectively connected to the grid and cathode. R.F. absorbers absorb r.f. fields in an interaction region between an anode and the grid. In one embodiment a coupling loop is between metal tubes at an end of the tubes spaced n.lambda./4 from the grid and cathode. In a second embodiment the coupler includes a coaxial line having an inner conductor connected to a first metal face, spaced from a second opposed metal face by a solid dielectric. An outer conductor is connected to a third metal face, spaced from a fourth opposed metal face by the dielectric. The third and fourth faces surround the first and second faces. The first and third faces are at ground potential while the second and fourth faces are at high negative DC voltages. The second and fourth faces are respectively at common ends of interior and exterior coaxial metal tubes forming a .lambda./2 coupler. Hollow inductive structures extend between the inner and outer metal tubes and at different locations along the tubes. Bias leads may be inserted into the inductive structures for shielding.
摘要:
A double beam cyclotron maser comprising two electron guns for introducing two electron beams traveling parallel to each other at different speeds into an electron drift tube/waveguide. The beams have respectively different electron cyclotron space-charge harmonics. A solenoid maintains a magnetic field parallel to the direction of propagation of the electron beams while a magnetic wiggler field initially imparts a transverse force to the electrons such that they propagate down the drift tube with a helical gyration. The magnetic fields, electron beam velocities, and beam space charge harmonics are adjustable to set the interaction frequency at which amplification of electromagnetic radiation can occur. The waveguide is a slow wave structure so configured as to slow the signal from the magnetron to match the phase velocity of the double stream cyclotron space-charge wave.
摘要:
An amplifying arrangement employs both density and velocity modulation of an electron beam in order to produce amplification of a high frequency signal. In one embodiment, density modulation is produced at the cathode region, a first carrier signal being applied between a cathode and a modulation grid to produce bunching of electrons. The density modulated electron beam is then velocity modulated at a first resonant cavity. It is preferred that the first carrier signal is twice the frequency of the carrier signal producing the velocity modulation. The arrangement may be such that, at the final resonant cavity, adjacent electron bunches produced by density modulation combine, thus giving a high efficiency amplifying arrangement.