MAGNETIC COMPRESSION OF ELECTRON BEAMS.
Abstract
The objective of the program is to compress a 0.00000054 AV to the 3/2 power electron beam by a factor of 1000, primarily by the use of magnetic fields, and to gain an understanding of the behavior of dense thermal electron beams. Magnetic compression has been demonstrated in a demountable vacuum system. Stable nonrippling beams compressed by factors of 200, 600, and the required 1000 have been produced at a 3 kV beam voltage. In each case the magnetic field acted to compress the beam over a relatively short region; the distance from the cathode to the point where the magnetic field became uniform was only twice as great as that required to introduce the same beam into a uniform field without magnetic compression. The structure of the beam was found to dissappear with distanc
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1967
- Accession Number
- AD0652278
Entities
People
- Kurt Amboss
Organizations
- HRL Laboratories