482results about "Travelling-wave tubes" patented technology

Methods and apparatus for generating strongly-ionized plasmas are disclosed. A strongly-ionized plasma generator according to one embodiment includes a chamber for confining a feed gas. An anode and a cathode assembly are positioned inside the chamber. A pulsed power supply is electrically connected between the anode and the cathode assembly. The pulsed power supply generates a multi-stage voltage pulse that includes a low-power stage with a first peak voltage having a magnitude and a rise time that is sufficient to generate a weakly-ionized plasma from the feed gas. The multi-stage voltage pulse also includes a transient stage with a second peak voltage having a magnitude and a rise time that is sufficient to shift an electron energy distribution in the weakly-ionized plasma to higher energies that increase an ionization rate which results in a rapid increase in electron density and a formation of a strongly-ionized plasma.

A terahertz interaction circuit is provided. The terahertz interaction circuit includes a waveguide and an electron beam tunnel. The waveguide has a folded shape and in which an electromagnetic wave propagates. The electron beam tunnel is formed to penetrate through the waveguide. An electron beam passes through the electron beam tunnel. The waveguide includes a ridge portion in which a portion of a surface of the waveguide protrudes into the waveguide.

This device allows the variation of the coupling between two points in an RF circuit in a very simple way while maintaining the RF phase relationship and varying the relative magnitude of the RF fields. The device is characterized by a simple mechanical control of coupling value, that has negligible effect on the phase shift across the device. This is achieved by the simple rotation of the polarisation of a TE111 mode inside a cylindrical cavity. Such a device does not contain resistive elements, and the sliding mechanical surfaces are free from high RF currents. This device finds an application in standing wave linear accelerators, where it is desirable to vary the relative RF field in one set of cavities with respect to another, in order that the accelerator can operate successfully over a wide range of energies.

The invention relates to a microwave component in the technical field of high power microwave and provides a coaxial-extraction long-pulse relativistic backward-wave oscillator. The coaxial-extraction long-pulse relativistic backward-wave oscillator comprises a cathode base, a cathode, an anode outer cylinder, a cut-off neck, a slow wave structure, a tapered waveguide, an output waveguide, a solenoidal field, a coaxial-extraction structure and a front-arranged reflection cavity. The coaxial-extraction structure is a cylinder. The front-arranged reflection cavity is disposed between the cut-off neck and the slow wave structure. According to the coaxial-extraction long-pulse relativistic backward-wave oscillator, a cylinder is adopted as the coaxial-extraction structure, and therefore the defect that the coaxial-extraction structure with a groove generates plasma is overcome, and meanwhile in the electromagnetic wave mode, function transformation can be carried out and installation can be achieved conveniently. The front-arranged reflection cavity is utilized to replace the cut-off neck so that the resonance characteristic of the front-arranged reflection cavity can be utilized to achieve the effect of the cut-off neck, electron beam scraping or electron beam bombardment of the front-arranged reflection cavity can be avoided, and premodulation of electron beams emitted from the cathode also can be carried out. Therefore, the coaxial-extraction long-pulse relativistic backward-wave oscillator is beneficial for subsequent beam wave interaction and improves power conversion efficiency of the component.

The invention discloses a dielectric filled compact type relativistic backward wave oscillator and belongs to the technical field of high-power microwave. The dielectric filled compact type relativistic backward wave oscillator is rotationally symmetrical relative to the central axis and consists of a cathode seat, a cathode, an anode outer barrel, a cut-off neck, a slow wave structure and a solenoidal field coil. The slow wave structure is a disk loaded waveguide type slow wave structure and consists of five slow wave blades, wherein the inner surface of each slow wave blade is of a rectangular structure. During dielectric filling, an original structure of the RBWO is not needed to be changed, and only dielectric materials are needed to be filled among all blades of the slow wave structure. The problem that a low-frequency relativistic backward wave oscillator is too large in size and weight can be solved, and the dielectric filled compact type relativistic backward wave oscillator has wide application prospect and important scientific research value on research of small-sized compact type relativistic backward wave oscillators, promotion of engineering application process of high-power microwave systems and expansion of the RBWO application field.

The invention discloses and especially relates to a secondary harmonic inhibition method for a broadband helix travelling wave tube, and belongs to the technical field of broadband helix travelling wave tubes. Within a certain range, a travelling wave tube harmonic inhibition situation becomes greater if a distance between a fin to a center is reduced, however, the reduced distance will make the fin closer to a helix and might cause engineering machining troubles and many other potential troubles. Therefore, two different fin structures are adopted by an input segment and an output segment respectively, and the distance from a fin on the input segment to the center is made to be greater. Through the even and symmetric fin structure, a better harmonic inhibition effect is exhibited, and other factors in terms of the design of a travelling wave tube can be better weighed.

A multibeam electron tube with several approximately parallel electron beams passing through a body. Among the beams, at least some define an interbeam volume, each beam defining the interbeam volume being subjected to a perturbing azimuthal magnetic field induced by all the other beams. The tube includes an element allowing, in at least one conducting element located in the interbeam volume, flow of a reverse current in the opposite direction to that of the current of the beams, this reverse current generating, in the beams defining the interbeam space, a magnetic correction field whose purpose is to oppose the perturbing magnetic field. Exemplary embodiments of the present invention especially apply to the multibeam klystrons or traveling wave tubes.

A high-power microwave generator employing a plurality of inexpensive commercial magnetron tubes cross-coupled by means of a secondary coupling path between each magnetron output pair, whereby a portion of the output energy from a first magnetron tube is injected into a second magnetron tube and a portion of the output energy from the second magnetron tube is similarly injected into the first magnetron tube. The resulting cross-injection of microwave energies brings the respective magnetron tube pair into a phase-lock sufficiently stable to permit coherent combination of their outputs for many high-power microwave applications, such as directed energy weapon systems. The magnetron phase-locking system requires no external components other than the secondary coupling paths of this invention.

The present invention relates to a microwave source of the high-power microwave technology field, and provides a relativistic backward-wave oscillator with a collector shaped as a Chinese character chang. The relativistic backward-wave oscillator comprises a cathode base, a cathode, an anode outer cylinder, a cut-off neck, a slow wave structure, a tapered waveguide, a reflector, an output waveguide and a solenoidal magnetic field. The collector shaped as the Chinese character chang is arranged behind the tapered waveguide, a stepped reflection cavity is arranged between the cut-off neck and the slow wave structure, and double extraction cavities are also arranged between the tail end of the slow wave structure and the tapered waveguide. The relativistic backward-wave oscillator of the present invention overcomes the disadvantage that the conventional relativistic backward-wave oscillator is difficult to consider the long output microwave pulse width and the high power conversion efficiency simultaneously, solves the problem that a coaxial extraction structure is easy to generate the plasmas to thereby influence the working efficiency, and realizes the microwave output that the pulse width is greater than 100 ns, the efficiency is greater than 40%, and the power is 6 GW, on the condition of using less slow wave blades. Moreover, a high-power microwave source is compact in structure, and is easy for the repeated frequency operation.

A method and device for providing power to a load are disclosed. A beam of free electrons is directed from a free-electron source, such as an electron gun, into an enclosing conductive surface. The free-electron source includes a cathode, which is maintained at a negative voltage with respect to the enclosing conductive surface. A region around the free-electron source is maintained in a vacuum. The system is configured to switch over a time period between two configurations. In the first configuration, the enclosing conductive surface is isolated from a ground. In the second configuration, the enclosing conductive surface is in electrical communication with the ground. Capacitive energy is discharged from the enclosing conductive surface when in the second configuration with an electrical circuit arrangement and provided to the load.

A slow wave structure for coupling RF energy with an electron beam comprises a co-propagating RF section including a plurality of pins having a uniform separation from the plane of an electron beam axis. An output aperture is positioned a half wavelength from a reflection section comprising a change in depth of the pintles, such that RF energy reflected by the change in pintle depth is added to the RF energy traveling with the electron beam. One or more rows of pintles are removed in the region of the output aperture to enhance coupling to the output aperture. The device may include a beam shaper for shaping the electron beam to surround the pintles, and the beam shaper and pintles may share common channels which are longitudinal to the electron beam axis. The slow wave structure may operate in forward and backward wave modes, and may be used in conjunction with other structures to form amplifiers and oscillators.

A portable power converter comprising input means to receive low voltage DC input, voltage converter means for converting the low voltage DC input into high DC voltage output, the voltage converter means in electrical communication with the input means, output means for operably supplying the high DC voltage to an appliance. The output means is in electrical communication with the converter includes a housing adapted to receive at least one of the input means, the voltage converter means and the output means. Preferably, the portable power converter also includes processing means for controlling some of the functions of the device such as shutting it down when power falls below preselected threshold. The device may also include a remote control which may be manually activated or in an alternative embodiment activated by external environment stimuli.

The invention discloses a pre-bunching high-power gyro traveling wave tube amplifier and relates to a microwave source device technology, comprising three sections: a linear amplifying section which adopts loss loading metal waveguide; an inertial drifting section which adopts heavy loss loading over-mode waveguide to provide an inertial bunching space approximating zero field for a bunching electron beam; and a nonlinear amplifying section which adopts smooth metal waveguide, wherein the gyro electron beam is fully modulated by driving power in the linear section; the modulated electron beam obtains good bunching characteristic according to inertia in the inertial drifting section; and the electron beam with good bunching vehemently reacts with an operating mode in the nonlinear amplifying section and transforms transverse kinetic energy to microwave energy to obtain high-energy microwave output. Both the linear amplifying section and the inertial drifting section are loss loops to guarantee the stability of the device; and the nonlinear amplifying section adopts the pre-bunching electron beam to work, and has the advantages of high power, high stability, and high efficiency.

A power control system for a satellite receiving radio-frequency signals includes a digital processor and a traveling wave tube amplifier system and corresponding traveling wave tube. An anode voltage of the traveling wave tube amplifier system is used to modulate or saturate the current of the electron beam of the traveling wave tube so that the output power of the traveling wave tube amplifier system, from the saturated electron beam, is proportional to a waveform envelope of the radio-frequency signals. The digital processor controls anode and RF input signal amplitudes to the traveling wave tube and predicts necessary corrections.

The invention relates to a four-stage depressed collector for a space traveling-wave tube. A first collector component, a second collector component, a third collector component and a fourth collector component are parallelly arranged inside a circular pipe-shaped collector outer cylinder in sequence in the axial direction, a certain insulating gap is formed between every two collector components, and the electrode lead of each collector passes through an insulating ceramic hole; each collector component comprises a collector electrode, electrode insulating ceramic and an electrode lead; the collector electrode is welded together with the collector outer cylinder through the insulating ceramic; the collector electrode is welded on the inner wall of the electrode insulating ceramic, the outer wall of the electrode insulating ceramic is welded together with the collector outer cylinder, and the electrode lead is directly welded together with the collector electrode and is insulated with other electrode through the insulating ceramic; and the collector outer cylinder is welded and fixed with a collector end cover to form the four-stage depressed collector.

The invention discloses a multi-stage depressed collector material and preparation and a surface treatment method thereof, which relates to a vacuum electronic technology and is a novel microporous electrode material which can be used for a multi-stage depressed collector of a satellite traveling-wave tube and a treatment process thereof. The electrode material has a micron/submicron-level microporous structure and is beneficial to inhibiting secondary electron emission and improving the recovery efficiency of the multi-stage depressed collector, thereby improving the overall efficiency of the traveling-wave tube. The method has the advantages of simple and controllable process and low cost. Compared with the surface modified by ion beams, the electrode surface of the prepared multi-stage depressed collector has the same effect on inhibiting secondary electron emission.

This invention belongs to a multi-level depressurization collector matched with traveling wave tube, comprising a cylindrical shell, each electrode and power source leading wire thereof mounted in the shell, an insulator mounted between each electrode and shell, an insulator rear cover provided with a power source leading hole, a front end cover. Because the original spare-parts type shell and the insulator thereof are designed to the integral cylindrical body with simple structure, the last level electrode is mounted at the central position of the inner wall of the rear cover, and the other each rear end electrodes are provided with the power source leading hole provided with an insulated sleeve for the front end electrode power source leading hole, this invention is featured with simple and compact structure, simple processing and assembling, strong suitability to the insulated material, small size, light weight and wider application range and so on, such that the defaults of complicated shapes the original spare-parts type shell and the insulator thereof has, need of mounting power source leading hole in the insulated layer, bad processing technology, difficult of assembling and bad suitability to the insulated material which are existed in the background technology are conquered.

A power supply circuit for a traveling-wave tube disclosed herein eliminates a large relay and a relay driving power supply to reduce the size and cost and to make itself tolerable to vibrations and impacts. A first control device turns on, when a potential on a helix electrode rises to a predetermined threshold determined by the ratio of the resistance of a first resistor to the resistance of a second resistor with respect to a potential on a positive heater electrode or a negative heater electrode, to conduct from a first terminal to a second terminal of the first control device. A second control device turns on when the first control device is off to maintain an anode electrode and a cathode electrode at the same potential. The second control device turns off when the first control device turns on to generate a potential difference between the anode electrode and cathode electrode, thereby applying a voltage to the anode electrode.

The invention belongs to the technical field of broadband helix traveling wave tubes, and provides an efficient broadband helix traveling wave tube with inner diameter hopping for the shortcoming of low output power of the existing broadband helix traveling wave tube. The efficient broadband helix traveling wave tube comprises an input helix, an output helix, a clamping rod, a tube casing and a centralized attenuator. The input helix and the output helix are fixed in the tube casing through the clamping rod. The input helix and the output helix are separated through cutting. Both sides are cut, and the centralized attenuator is arranged. The efficient broadband helix traveling wave tube is characterized in that the inner diameter of the output helix is hopping compared with the inner diameter of the input helix, so that the helix traveling wave tube realizes saturation output power point gathering in a work band. According to the broadband helix traveling wave tube provided by the invention, an inner diameter hopping technology is used to effectively solve the problem of saturation output power synchronization in bandwidth; the output power of the broadband helix traveling wave tube is effectively improved; and the output power is high under an equal excitation input condition.

This disclosure describes a multibeam doubly convergent electron gun. Two or more beamlets can be run parallel to the axis at a prescribed radius to produce sufficient current to drive the VED. In order to obtain sufficient cathode surface area to provide the required current, the beamlets are launched from a cathode radius greater than the radius required in a slow wave circuit. In one embodiment, an electron gun includes a focus electrode that surrounds two or more cathodes, wherein each cathode emits a beamlet comprised of a plurality of electrons directed to a predetermined location. A first anode receives each beamlet at the predetermined location, accelerates each beamlet and changes the radius of each beamlet. A second anode receives each beamlet from the first anode, directs each beamlet along a predetermined axis, further accelerates, and can further compress each beamlet.

For a traveling-wave valve arrangement with a traveling-wave valve and a linearizing circuit arrangement, it is proposed to design the linearizing circuit arrangement and the traveling-wave valve as one constructional unit and, for the thermal protection of the linearizing circuit arrangement in the simultaneous presence of a high permissible temperature of the valve housing, to maintain the circuit arrangement by means of an active cooling element at a nondamaging temperature lower than the one of the wall of the valve or of a common wall. The cooling element is preferably a Peltier element.