摘要:
A high-current, high-gradient, high-efficiency, multi-stage cavity cyclotron resonance accelerator (MCCRA) provides energy gains of over 50 MeV/stage, at an acceleration gradient that exceeds 20 MeV/m, in room temperature cavities. The multi-stage cavity cyclotron resonance accelerator includes a charged particle source, a plurality of end-to-end rotating mode room-temperature cavities, and a solenoid coil. The solenoid coil encompasses the cavities and provides a substantially uniform magnetic field that threads through the cavities. Specifically, the MCCRA is provided with a constant magnetic field sufficient to produce a cyclotron frequency a little higher than the RF of the accelerating electric field. A plurality of input feeds, each of which respectively coupled to a cavity, are also provided. According to an embodiment of the invention, the beam from the first cavity passes through a cutoff drift tube and is accelerated further with a cavity supporting a still lower radio-frequency electric field. This embodiment yields a several-milliampere one-gigavolt proton beam efficiently. The single cavity transfers about 70% of the radio-frequency energy to the beam. A multiple-cavity accelerator using a constant or slightly decreasing static magnetic field along its length and using cutoff drift tubes between the cavities operating at progressively lower frequencies, each somewhat lower than the local relativistic cyclotron frequency of the beam in that cavity, provides an extremely-efficient, compact, continuously-operating, medium-energy accelerator. In another embodiment of the invention, the progressively lower frequencies are selected to decrease in substantially equal increments corresponding to a difference frequency. The charged particles are emitted in pulses in correspondence with the difference frequency.
摘要:
A focusing system for a helix TWT includes a polepiece structure for conducting magnetic flux to a drift tube of the TWT in a first general direction and conducting the magnetic flux from the drift tube in a second general direction perpendicular to the first general direction. Radially magnetized permanent magnets are disposed at outer portions of the polepiece structure and supply the magnetic flux. A first pair of the magnets have a first direction of polarity, and a second pair of the magnets have a second direction of polarity opposite to the first direction. An outer shell encapsulates the polepiece structure and the magnets, and provides a magnetic flux return path. An electron beam travels in the drift tube and the magnetic flux provides focusing for the electron beam.
摘要:
A linear beam device comprises a cathode and an anode spaced therefrom, with the anode and cathode being operable to form and accelerate an electron beam. An RF interaction region having a drift tube is arranged relative to the anode to permit the electron beam to pass therethrough. A multi-stage depressed collector of the linear beam device has a plurality of collector electrodes successively arranged to collect spent electrons of the electron beam after passing through the RF interaction region. Each one of the plurality of collector electrodes has a distinct voltage level applied thereto defining a decelerating electric field within the collector. At least one of the plurality of collector electrodes further comprises a collecting surface having a shape that is normal to a coincident trajectory of the spent electrons, whereby a substantial portion of the collecting surface is covered with a plurality of narrow grooves. In an embodiment of the invention, the grooved collector electrode further comprises the final electrode of the collector. The final electrode has a surface that is substantially spherical, and the plurality of grooves may be arranged in a concentric pattern of circles on the electrode surface. The plurality of grooves may be formed to a depth that is approximately twice a corresponding width. A region adjacent to an opening of each of the plurality of grooves comprises electric fields defining a convergent lens, thereby focusing the spent electrons into the plurality of grooves.
摘要:
A linear beam amplification device includes an axially centered electron emitting cathode and an anode spaced therefrom. The cathode provides an electron beam in response to a relatively high voltage potential defined between the cathode and the anode. A control grid is spaced between the cathode and anode for modulating the electron beam in accordance with an input signal. A signal input assembly of the linear beam amplification device comprises an axial input cavity into which the input signal is inductively coupled. The grid-cathode region is electrically connected to the input cavity. A low impedance grid-anode cavity is disposed coaxially with the input cavity and is in electrical communication with an interaction region defined between the grid and the anode. The low impedance of the grid-anode cavity is provided by constructing the cavity of a material having a relatively high surface resistivity, such as iron. The high surface resistivity tends to reduce the Q (quality factor) of the grid-anode cavity, which also reduces the impedance of the grid-anode cavity. Alternatively, the grid-anode cavity may be tuned to define a transmission line having an electrical length approximately equal to n.lambda./4, where .lambda. is the wavelength of the input RF signal, and n is an even integer.
摘要:
An inductive output tube (IOT) provides improved efficiency and larger bandwidth. In one embodiment, an IOT is provided with an electron gun that generates an electron beam, a tube body, a collector for collecting the electron beam, and an extended-interaction output circuit. The electron beam travels through the tube body and the extended-interaction output circuit. The extended-interaction output circuit is located within the tube body. The extended-interaction output circuit comprises a short-circuited resonant structure. The extended-interaction output circuit is used for reducing undesired components of a radio frequency (RF) wave, increasing desired components of the RF wave, and slowing down the propagation of the RF wave. (That is the circuit increases the integral of the electric field along the path of the beam electrons while decreasing the stored energy associated with those fields.) The extended-interaction output circuit also provides the IOT with larger bandwidth operation. The collector may be a multi-stage depressed collector having voltages on the collector to result in a constant efficiency characteristic. The radio-frequency drive power to the tube is connected by means of a broadband impedance matching transformer, and the grid to cathode capacitance may be reduced by depressions in the surface of the cathode directly underneath the grid structure.
摘要:
An electron emissive cathode is designed based upon the triple-junction effect. The electron emitting cathode comprises a cathode body having an emitting surface for emitting electrons. A ferroelectric material is impregnated within the cathode body such that the ferroelectric material enhances the emission of electrons from the emitting surface. The cathode body may comprise a tungsten matrix material and the ferroelectric material may comprise a barium titanate, lithium niobate material and/or other known ferroelectrics.
摘要:
A linear beam device having a multi-stage depressed collector is provided with a single crowbar circuit that quickly removes all voltages from the collector electrodes upon detection of an arc between the collector electrodes. The linear beam device comprises a cathode and an anode spaced therefrom that are operable to form and accelerate an electron beam. A collector having a plurality of successive collector electrodes is arranged downstream from the anode to collect electrons of the electron beam. At least one power supply is coupled to the collector and provides a plurality of distinct voltage levels to respective ones of the collector electrodes. The power supply comprises a plurality of serially coupled filter capacitors, with each one of the filter capacitors being charged to a respective difference between adjacent ones of the distinct voltage levels. A crowbar circuit is coupled across the plurality of filter capacitors. The crowbar circuit reduces the total voltage across the plurality of filter capacitors to zero upon detection of an arc between any two of the collector electrodes. According to an embodiment of the invention, the power supply further comprises a plurality of diodes respectively coupled across the plurality of serially coupled filter capacitors. The diodes prevent reversal of voltage of a corresponding one of the filter capacitors upon operation of the crowbar circuit.
摘要:
An electron gun provides multiple convergent beamlets in a rectilinear flow for use in multiple drift tubes of a multiple beam klystron. The electron gun comprises a cathode having a concave emitting surface and an anode having a concave surface defined by respective ends of a plurality of hollow drift tubes. The anode surface is spaced from the cathode surface and has a positive voltage potential applied thereto to define a series of equipotential contour surfaces between the cathode and the anode. A plurality of grids are located between the cathode and the anode, with each one of the grids being disposed coincident with a respective one of the equipotential contour surfaces with a first one of the grids located closely adjacent to the cathode surface. Each one of the grids further has a plurality of perforations extending therethrough in substantial registration with each other and with respective openings of the plurality of drift tubes. A plurality of electron beamlets are drawn from the cathode surface through respective ones of the plurality of perforations and into respective ones of the plurality of drift tubes.
摘要:
A high-current, high-gradient, high-efficiency, multi-stage cavity cyclotron resonance accelerator (MCCRA) provides energy gains of over 50 MeV/stage, at an acceleration gradient that exceeds 20 MeV/m, in room temperature cavities. The multi-stage cavity cyclotron resonance accelerator includes a charged particle source, a plurality of end-to-end rotating mode room-temperature cavities, and a solenoid coil. The solenoid coil encompasses the cavities and provides a substantially uniform magnetic field that threads through the cavities. Specifically, the MCCRA is provided with a constant magnetic field sufficient to produce a cyclotron frequency a little higher than the RF of the accelerating electric field. A plurality of input feeds, each of which respectively coupled to a cavity, are also provided. According to an embodiment of the invention, the beam from the first cavity passes through a cutoff drift tube and is accelerated further with a cavity supporting a still lower radio-frequency electric field. This embodiment yields a several-milliampere one-gigavolt proton beam efficiently. The single cavity transfers about 70% of the radio-frequency energy to the beam. A multiple-cavity accelerator using a constant or slightly decreasing static magnetic field along its length and using cutoff drift tubes between the cavities operating at progressively lower frequencies, each somewhat lower than the local relativistic cyclotron frequency of the beam in that cavity, provides an extremely-efficient, compact, continuously-operating, medium-energy accelerator.
摘要:
An inductive output tube (IOT) of a multi-staged depressed collector provides improved efficiency by approximating a Brillouin electron beam flow. In one embodiment, an IOT is provided with an electron gun that generates an electron beam, a tube body, a multi-staged depressed collector for collecting the electron beam, and a magnetic solenoid. The electron beam travels through the tube body. The magnetic solenoid produces a magnetic flux that focuses the electron beam as it travels through the tube body. The magnetic flux includes a portion that threads through the electron gun. The IOT is adapted to reduce this portion of the magnetic flux in order to provide improvements in the efficiency of the IOT.