THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF LARGE-SIGNAL TRAVELING WAVE TUBES
Abstract
The calculation of space-charge weighting functions for a finite diameter electron beam are presented for both the axial and radial spacecharge forces. New experimental results on variable-pitch helix traveling-wave tubes are presented and maximum efficiency figures of 45 percent are indicated. Results on X-band elliptic cavity couplers indicate that low VSWR and insertion loss can be achieved over very wide bandwidths both with coaxial lines and with waveguide coupling. Initial computer results on the potential distribution in a two-dimensional diode are presented and correlated with one-dimensional results. An expression for the electric field distribution in a beam-plasma interaction is presented which removes an earlier restriction to a constant relaxation time. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1962
- Accession Number
- AD0278569
Entities
People
- C.a. Brackett
- S.k. Cho
Organizations
- University of Michigan