EP0352961A1 - Klystrode multiplicateur de fréquence - Google Patents
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- EP0352961A1 EP0352961A1 EP89307345A EP89307345A EP0352961A1 EP 0352961 A1 EP0352961 A1 EP 0352961A1 EP 89307345 A EP89307345 A EP 89307345A EP 89307345 A EP89307345 A EP 89307345A EP 0352961 A1 EP0352961 A1 EP 0352961A1
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- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01J—ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
- H01J25/00—Transit-time tubes, e.g. klystrons, travelling-wave tubes, magnetrons
- H01J25/02—Tubes with electron stream modulated in velocity or density in a modulator zone and thereafter giving up energy in an inducing zone, the zones being associated with one or more resonators
- H01J25/04—Tubes having one or more resonators, without reflection of the electron stream, and in which the modulation produced in the modulator zone is mainly density modulation, e.g. Heaff tube
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- the invention pertains to linear-beam electron tubes in which the beam is density-modulated by a control grid.
- Such tubes have been found useful for generating amplitude-modulated ultra-high-frequency radio waves such as television broadcast transmission, with efficiency superior to klystrons.
- Radio transmitters have generally used grid-controlled electron tubes such as tetrodes.
- UHF ultra-high frequency range
- the gridded tubes reached their performance limits of power or frequency due to the transit times of electrons across the gaps between electrodes becoming comparable to the period of the generated wave.
- the first development to overcome these limits was the UHF klystron in which transit time is taken advantage of rather than being unwanted.
- the klystron is very inefficient for amplifying an amplitude-modulated wave such as the standard TV signal where amplitude corresponds to brightness.
- the klystron has to have enough power in the beam to generate the signal peaks, such as black and the still stronger synchronization pulses.
- the average power needed for an average signal is several times smaller, but the unused beam power is wasted as heat in the spent-beam collector.
- Figure 1 illustrates a tube which has a thermionic cathode 10 with preferably concave emitting surface 11, heated by a radiant wire coil 12.
- a convergent beam of electrons 14 is drawn from emitter 11 by a hollow anode 16.
- Directly in front of emitter 11 is an electron-pereable grid, preferably of pyrolytic graphite bars 18 bounding apertures 20.
- Beam 14 is converged toward anode 16 by the convergent electrostatic field. It passes through anode 16 and an annular ferro-magnetic polepiece 22 which forms one terminus of a strong axial magnetic focusing field generated by a surrounding solenoid coil (not shown). Beam 14 then passes through a hollow metallic drift tube 24 and crosses an interaction gap 26 between input drift tube 24 and an exit drift tube 28. Drift tubes 24 and 28 form the center conductor of a coaxial cavity 30, resonant at preferably a frequency just above the frequency band of the tube's input signal.
- Cavity 32 is resonant at a harmonic of the band-center input frequency and is excited by the harmonic component of the modulated beam current.
- beam 14 After leaving harmonic output cavity 32, beam 14 passes through a second annular polepiece 37 which terminates most of the axial field. Beam 14 then expands under its own space-charge repulsion and is collected on the hollow, inner surface of a beam collector 38. The heat energy dissipated is removed by a coolant 40 (such as water) circulating from a coolant pipe 42.
- a coolant 40 such as water
- an input signal to be amplified and frequency-multiplied is fed in from a coaxial transmission line 46 through a coaxial dielectric vacuum window 48 to the space between the gird support 50 (usually at rf ground) and cathode support 52.
- This space may be partially blocked from input line 46 to form a resonant cavity to properly match impedances.
- Drift tube 34 of harmonic cavity 32 is smaller in diameter than drift tube 24 of fundamental cavity 30, to provide good interactive coupling between beam and cavity at the higher frequency.
- the beam size is tapered down by a gradual increase in strength of the focussing magnetic field by increasing the wire turns per unit length of the solenoid. Shaping of polepieces 22, 37 to concave-convex shapes may also be used to generate the tapered field. In the strong "confined flow" focussing, the electrons follow the magnetic flux lines.
- Useful harmonic energy is extracted from output cavity 32 via a coupling orifice 54 into an output waveguide 56 which is sealed off by a dielectric vacuum window 57.
- FIG. 4 shows calculated trajectories (in rf phase) of sample electrons where harmonic content of beam current is enhanced by bunching at a harmonic frequency.
- FIG. 2 is a graph of calculated harmonic components of beam current in the inventive frequency multiplier, plotted as functions of distance Z from the amplitude-modulating grid.
- Graph 60 is the fundamental component having a decreasing value 62 after leaving grid 18 due to space-charge debunching.
- beam 14 receives velocity modulation which in following drift tube 28 increases the A.C. component 64.
- the A.C. component reaches a maximum value 66.
- an output circuit with a gap at the position of harmonic gap 36 but resonant at the fundamental frequency gives a conversion efficiency of 87%.
- the second graph shows the second harmonic component 70 of beam current.
- the space-charge debunching 72 is more severe than for the fundamental current 60 due to the shorter wavelength.
- the second harmonic current also increases faster due to the increased number of wavelengths traversed.
- the peak value 76 is reached at about the same distance as that of fundamental 60. At this point output gap 36 is located.
- the conversion efficiency for second harmonic power was calculated as 75%, a value completely out of reach in klystrons or simple grid-controlled tubes.
- the second or third harmonic would be used.
- the limits of power and frequency available from the multiplier are greatly extended.
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US22349088A | 1988-07-25 | 1988-07-25 | |
US223490 | 1988-07-25 |
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EP0352961A1 true EP0352961A1 (fr) | 1990-01-31 |
EP0352961B1 EP0352961B1 (fr) | 1994-09-07 |
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EP19890307345 Expired - Lifetime EP0352961B1 (fr) | 1988-07-25 | 1989-07-20 | Klystrode multiplicateur de fréquence |
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JP (1) | JPH0279330A (fr) |
DE (1) | DE68918021T2 (fr) |
Cited By (2)
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FR2704093A1 (fr) * | 1993-04-13 | 1994-10-21 | Eev Ltd | Tube à faisceau d'électrons linéaire. |
WO1999028943A1 (fr) * | 1997-11-27 | 1999-06-10 | Eev Limited | Tubes electroniques |
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WO2016108882A1 (fr) | 2014-12-31 | 2016-07-07 | Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. | Trépan à générateur d'énergie électrique |
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US4209755A (en) * | 1977-08-01 | 1980-06-24 | Societa Italiana Telecomunicazioni Siemens S.P.A. | Tunable oscillator comprising dual-cavity klystron |
US4527091A (en) * | 1983-06-09 | 1985-07-02 | Varian Associates, Inc. | Density modulated electron beam tube with enhanced gain |
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- 1989-07-20 EP EP19890307345 patent/EP0352961B1/fr not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1989-07-20 DE DE1989618021 patent/DE68918021T2/de not_active Expired - Fee Related
- 1989-07-21 JP JP18761989A patent/JPH0279330A/ja active Pending
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US4209755A (en) * | 1977-08-01 | 1980-06-24 | Societa Italiana Telecomunicazioni Siemens S.P.A. | Tunable oscillator comprising dual-cavity klystron |
US4527091A (en) * | 1983-06-09 | 1985-07-02 | Varian Associates, Inc. | Density modulated electron beam tube with enhanced gain |
Non-Patent Citations (1)
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE, vol. 70, no. 11, November 1982, The Institute of electrical and electronics engineers D.H.PREIST "The klystrode - an unusual transmitting tube with potential for UHF-TV" pages 1318-1325 * |
Cited By (5)
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FR2704093A1 (fr) * | 1993-04-13 | 1994-10-21 | Eev Ltd | Tube à faisceau d'électrons linéaire. |
WO1994024690A2 (fr) * | 1993-04-13 | 1994-10-27 | Eev Limited | Tubes a faisceau electronique |
WO1994024690A3 (fr) * | 1993-04-13 | 1994-12-08 | Eev Ltd | Tubes a faisceau electronique |
WO1999028943A1 (fr) * | 1997-11-27 | 1999-06-10 | Eev Limited | Tubes electroniques |
US6465958B1 (en) | 1997-11-27 | 2002-10-15 | Eev Limited | Electron beam tubes |
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DE68918021T2 (de) | 1995-01-12 |
EP0352961B1 (fr) | 1994-09-07 |
JPH0279330A (ja) | 1990-03-19 |
DE68918021D1 (de) | 1994-10-13 |
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