US2201323A - Electronic modulator and method of modulation - Google Patents

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US2201323A
US2201323A US72916A US7291636A US2201323A US 2201323 A US2201323 A US 2201323A US 72916 A US72916 A US 72916A US 7291636 A US7291636 A US 7291636A US 2201323 A US2201323 A US 2201323A
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  • the method and means of the present invention is proposed mainly as a method and means for frequency or phase modulating a carrier signal obtained from an oscillator of constant frequency and phase.
  • the oscillations may be obtained from a crystal controlled oscillator.
  • modulation is achieved by addingtwo voltages of the same frequency which have a phase difference of 90, one voltage having constant amplitude and the other varying in amplitude with the modulation signal.
  • This method has thedisadvantage of serious distortion unless the maximum phase shift is limited to small angles, say of the order of 30.
  • the reason that distortion is produced is that the amplitude of the modulation signal (of any given frequency) is proportional to the tangent of the angle of phase shiftand not proportional to the angle itself as it should be for distortionless modulation: For angles less than about 30 the tangent approximates the angle closely enough to prevent serious distortion but above about 30 the distortion increases rapidly.
  • v the final carrier frequency when-the shift in the modulated stage is' 30 or less it is necessary to modulate a relatively low frequency carrier and employ frequency multiplication of large ratio.
  • phase modulation refers to'modulation of the kind in which the form,of the modulated current wave may be represented by the equation:
  • iy Af sin (wot+ sin t) (2) if the unmodulated carrier wave has the form sin wet and the modulation signal has the form sin t.
  • Figures 1 and 2 show an electron device, or gun 2 have the or cathode ray tube arranged in accordance with the present invention and having a novel anode or target or plate.
  • the discharge device is shown connected in my novel modulation circuit;
  • Figure 1a shows a modifiedform of the target.
  • the target is saucer shaped so that the points on the useful surface are equi-distance from the electron stream origin;
  • Figure 1b illustrates a" modified electron tube or gun wherein the surface of the tube envelope is coated with a conducting material tocollect electrons which pass the target anode or are of a secondary nature;
  • FigureZa is an additional modification of the target.
  • the target of 241 includes pairs of elements similar to the pairs of elements of Figure 2.
  • a target as shown in Figure 2a may be used when multiplication of frequency, or the same with modulation, is desired;
  • Figure 3 illustrates by line diagram my novel circuit for producing and applying deflecting potentials to theelectrodes of the novel electron discharge device of Figures 1 and 2;
  • FIG 3a shows in detail, one form of phase shifting network used in the circuit of Figure 3;
  • Figure 4 shows graphs or curves illustrating the principle of operation of the electron discharge device and circuits of the prior figures;
  • Figure 5 illustrates the principle circuit elements of a complete modulation system arranged in accordance with my novel concept.
  • the device consists, as will be seen by reference to Figures 1 and 2, essentially. of an electron gun 4, two sets of electrostatic deflecting plates 6 and 8 and a target anode ID of special design, enclosed in an evacuated container of suitable size and shape.
  • Figure l One typical arrangement has been shown schematically in Figure l for purposes of illustration. It will be seen at once that the device illustrated is similar in some respects to a conventional cathode ray oscillograph tube.
  • Figure 2 illustrates one form which the target anode may take. It consists of two (or more) metallic electrodes l4 and [6 with curved boundaries, upon which electrodes the electrons from the electron gun impinge.
  • the electrodes i4 and I 6 may consist of metallic plates or meshes or metallic deposits on the tube envelope or on a support in said tube. Where the elements l4 and iii are of mesh, a collecting electrode may be located back of these targets and properly charged relative to the other electrodes as shown in Figure lb.
  • a collecting electrode may be located back of these targets and properly charged relative to the other electrodes as shown in Figure lb.
  • the inner edges of the plates l4 and I 6 have a curvature defined by the polar equation which defines an Archimedean spiral. In this equation 1' is the radial distance from the origin to any point on the curved edge of the plates,
  • '0 is the angular displacement of the same point 'by plates 6 and 8 in such a way that it traces out a circle on the target, or anode plates I 4 and IS, the diameter of the circle being a variable which is directly proportional to the instantaneous value of the modulating signal potentials.
  • the electron stream - may be made to produce a phase or frequency modulated carrier wave in the impedance Zn. upon striking a target having the special design just described, provided the deflecting plates 5 and 8 are properly energized. Operation of the system will now be described more fully.
  • the electron gun is controlled and focused by adjusting the direct current potentials applied from any suitable source or sources to the cathode, control grid, screen grid and-first anode, just as in the case of oscillograph tubes and kinescopes. for purposes of illustration.
  • the electron stream is focused on the target anode comprising sections it and I6, and when there is no voltage applied to the electrostatic deflecting plates 6 and 8 it strikes the exact geometrical center of the target anode.
  • the deflecting plates 5 and 8 are substantially displaced by 90.
  • the inputs which consist of two carrier waves of equal frequency and almost equal amplitude but diflering in phase and having the same percentage amplitude modulation, are applied to the two sets of electrostatic deflecting plates.
  • Figure 3 illustrates by line diagram one means of supplying the inputs to the deflecting plates 6 and 8.
  • carrier wave oscillations from any source are supplied to the input of an amplitude modulator 20 which is also connected to any source 01 modulating potentials.
  • the output of the modulator is connected to an amplitude regulating potentiometer P1 which is connected to a phase shifting system or network 22.
  • This network may take any form, the essential feature being that the output thereof supplies two voltages er and e: characteristic of the amplitude modulated wave in phase displaced relation.
  • the phase displacement is 90' when the deflecting plates 6 and 8 are at right angles and linear modulation is desired.
  • One output goes directly to one set of deflecting plates. The other output.
  • phase shifter has been shown in- Figure 3a.
  • the amplitude modulated radio frequency or carrier frequency waves are applied to input terminals and from said terminals to a resistance in series with a condenser 32.
  • the condenser 32 and selecting the valve of 30 the desired phase relation between e1 and es can be produced.
  • the oscillations may be modulated by keying, by voice frequencies, by television or facsimile signals or by constant frequency variable dot characters.
  • phase modulated output is desired the modulating potentials are appliedin their characteristic form to the stage 20 where amplitude modulations takes place. If frequency modulated output is desired the modulating potentials are distorted or corrected in such a manner that the potentials applied to the stage 20 are attenuated in proportion to their frequency.
  • the produced phase or frequency modulated output appears in the circuit including one or both of the target electrodes I4 and i6, across the impedance Za or any portion of Za.
  • Z is a pure resistance the output voltage appearing across it will be a flat-topped wave of constant amplitude having frequency or phase modulation proportional to the amplitude modulation of the input, and a fundamental frequency equal to that of the input carrier.
  • Za may be tuned to the fundamental or any one of its harmonics.
  • the fundamental frequency of the flat-topped output wave may be made any desired multiple of the input frequency.
  • frequency or phase modulation accompanied by frequency multiplication may be accomplished when the target is as shown in Figure 2 if Za is reactive I provide othermeans for accomplishing these results.
  • a target as illustrated in Figure 2a having a plurality of pairs of elements I4, l4 and l6, l6 with boundaries similar to the boundaries of the corresponding plates of Figure 2, the phase or frequency modulation and frequency multiplication is accomplished simultaneously in the tube.
  • the number of elements may be increased indefinitely within practical limits.
  • alternate ones are joined as shown at NO and H2.
  • the reference characters for circles C1 C2 and C3, etc. have been omitted in Figure 2a.
  • 40 is an oscillation generator having its electrodes connected as shown to produce oscillations of the desired frequency of constant frequency.
  • the oscillator is of the crystal control type it will be clearly understood that any means, such as a long line control frequency oscillator or an electron coupled oscillator may be utilized in place of the crystal oscillator shown.
  • the output electrodes of the crystal oscillator are connected with a buffer ampliiier stage comprising an electron discharge device 42 and are supplied by way of a blocking condenser and transformer from the output electrodes of said buffer amplifier stage to the control grid electrode of a further amplifier 44.
  • Electron discharge device 42 may be of the screen grid type as shown, wherein the screen grid serves to shield the output electrodes and circuit fromthe input electrodes and driving-stage or this tube may be of the three electrode type and may be connected in a neutralized circuit.
  • the amplifier 44 may also multiply the frequency of the impressed oscillations while amplifying the same.
  • the input circuit 45 of 44 is tuned to the frequency at which 42 operates while the output circuit 46 is tuned to a harmonic of said frequency.
  • This tube 44 has been shown as being of the pentode type although it will be realized that any other appropriate tube may be used in place of the one shown,
  • the anode electrode of the tube 44 is coupled toa tuned circuit 45 the winding of which formsthe primary winding of a transformer 55.
  • the secondary winding of this transformer 56 is connected in parallel with a tuning condenser to provide a tuned circuit 55, one terminal of which is connected to ground by way of a resistance 53 and directly to one plate of one of the sets of deflecting plates 6 and 8, say of plates 6.
  • the other terminal of the tuned circuit 55 is connected with a phase shifting circuit 58 comprising an inductance 51 shunted by a variable condenser 59 and a variable resistance 60.
  • One end of, this phase shifting circuit 58 is connected as shown to ground by way of a resistance 5
  • the other terminal of the phase shifting circuit 58 is connected to the remaining deflecting plates of the pairs of plates 6 and 8. These remaining deflecting plates are also connected to ground by way of resistances 6i and 62.
  • phase shifting circuit is the equivalent of that shown in Figure 3a. Any other appropriate phase shifting means may be used.
  • Operating potentials for the tubes 40, 42, 44 and 12 may be supplied from any suitable source. Likewise, operating potentials for the cathode ray tube 4 may be supplied from any source. I
  • Modulating potential may be applied from any source to the primary winding of an audio frequency transformer AFI, the secondary winding of which is coupled as shown to a potentiometer resistance PR.
  • a point on the potentiometer resistance PR. is connected as shown by way of the the carrier wave being applied to the :phase shifting circuit.
  • phase modulated or frequency modulated oscillations produced on the target anode l0 appear in the circuit 10 and are impressed from the circuit Ill on to an additional "amplifier 12.
  • the circuit!!! may be tuned to the fundamental frequency, that is, the frequency .applied to the deflecting electrodes of the tube for to a harmonic thereof.
  • the circuit 10 is coupled to the input electrodes of amplifier 12, the output electrodes of which may be connected to a utilization circuit directly or by way of a frequency multiplier l4 and a further amplifier shown diagrammatically in a rectangle 16.
  • the circuit I0 and its coupling tothe tube 12 may be replaced by a resistance as in Figure 1 in which case the phase or frequency modulated wave energy from thetarget anode llLwill be impressed on tube 12 with no appreciable filtering. This energy then may be frequency multiplied and amplified for use by any one of several means well known to the art.
  • the output or utilization circuit 80 may comprise radiating means or lines over which the phase or frequency modulated waves may be transmitted.
  • the resistance 63 connected in the input circuit of' amplifier 68 may be ofhigh impedance to the modulating frequencies and in particular to the higher modulating frequencies, while the condenser 64 may be of low impedance to the modulating frequencies and in particular, of low impedance to the higher modulating frequency po-- tentials.
  • the potentials applied to the input electrodes of 68 may be caused to vary inversely as the frequency of the said modulating potentials.
  • the values of 63 and 64 are selected such that the modulating potentials appearing between the control grid and cathode of 68 are directly proportional to the applied modulating potentials and are independent of the frequency of the applied modulating potentials.
  • the circuit transformer AFI may be connected directly by way of its secondary winding to the control grid and cathode of the tube GI.
  • 80 may be aconducting element located inthe tube or may consist of a. deposit or coating on the tube envelope as shown at C in Figure 1b.
  • the electrode is maintained at a potential more positive than that applied to electrodes ll.
  • This anode or coating or collecting,or return electrode 90 collects the electrons emitted from the target anode Ill by the phenomenon of secondary emission occurring when the primary electrons of the beam strike the target.”
  • the electrode so also collects any electrons free in the tube and there may be considerable in the case electrodes III are grids or meshes.
  • the electrode 90 is in this particular embodiment in the current path of both electrodes l0 and the circuit 10 and since the secondary emission may be made greater than the primary emission, the current output may ob- February 2, 1937.
  • the fundamental principle involves the use of an electron gun, or other source of electrons, and an anode of such configuration that the voltage fluctuations applied to one or more elements of thetube are translated into. phase, frequency or amplitude modulation in the anode circuit, the type of translation being dependent upon the configuration of the anode as well as upon the nature of the input voltages and the method of applying them.
  • phase shift is plus and minus approximately 90 when the input is amplitude modulated 50 percent. Under the same conditions, amplitude modulation of 75 percent on the input will give phase shift of approximately plus and minus etc.
  • Electromagnetic deflection of the electron stream may be utilized instead of electrostatic deflection as described above.
  • these voltages may have constant amplitude and the modulation voltage may be introduced (in proper ratio) into the accelerating electrode circuits of the electron gun.
  • Variation of the accelerating electrode voltages will cause the sensitivity or stiffness of the electron stream to vary, so that for voltages of constant amplitudes on the deflecting plates the size of the circle described on the target anode by the electron stream willvary in some inverse relation to the anode voltages.
  • Variation of volt- I ages on two or more of the electrodes of the electron gun (in proper ratio) is necessary to preserve sharp focus of the electron stream throughout the modulation cycle.
  • the target anode I0 is indicated as having a plane surface.
  • the target anode ID has been conphase) structed with a curved surface (saucer-shaped) as shown in Figure 1a, so that the electrons from the electron gun always travel very nearly the same distance before strikingizhe target, regardless of the amount of deflection of the electron stream from its undeflected path.
  • the curvature of the boundaries of the target electrodes is not completely represented by the simple Equation 3.
  • the curvature of the boundaries was made such that the phase shift in the output wave is directly proportional to the change in deflecting potentials causing the phase shift.
  • Auxiliary electrodes may be added to the device described for control or monitoring purposes.
  • a willemite screen such as that used in cathode ray oscillograph tubes might be provided beyond the target anode, so that the electron stream would produce a pattern upon it when it passed between segments of the target or beyond the outer edges of the target plates.
  • Additional electrodes located in the same plane as the target anode, but electrically separate from it, might be used for adjusting the modulator and also for indicating over-modulation.
  • Such an electrode, of small area, located at the geometrical center of the anode (where the anode plates are cut away) would be useful in centering the electron stream.
  • a narrow annular ring around the outside of the main anode could be used in connection with adjustment of the phase shifting network to obtain circular deflection of the electron stream.
  • Other auxiliaries will undoubtedly suggest themselves,
  • phase shift is proportional to the modulating voltage
  • the principle is quite flexible in this respect.
  • the phase shift may be made almost any function of the modulating voltage, this being determined by the curvature of the boundaries of the target plates and/or the nature of the curve described on the anode by the electronstream.
  • the amplitude of the output voltage wave may be varied independently of the frequency (or modulation by varying the direct current potential applied to the control grid of the electron gun. If it is desired to amplitude modulate the output wave in addition to or instead of frequency (or phase) modulating it in the manner described this may be doneitreadily by applying the amplitude modulation signal to the control grid, provided the electron gun is so constructed, adjusted and operated that the rate of electron emission from the gun is a linear function of control grid voltage over the operating range.
  • One manner in which the output wave may be modulated in amplitude has been illustrated in Figure 5. Other means will be obvious to those skilled in the art who have read this specification.
  • a second source of modulating potentials may be connected with the primary winding of a transformer I and the secondary winding of this transformer may be switched into the direct current circuit between the cathode and number i grid of the gun 4.
  • the wave may now be amplitude modulated or may be phase or frequency modulated only by potentials from AFT, or a phase modulated wave carrying signals from AP! may be amplitude modulated by other signals from I00 so that multiplexing of signals on a single carrier is feasible.
  • the wave may also be frequency modulated by forces, characteristic of said only by potentials from Hill one signal from AFT and amplitude modulated by a-second signal from I00.
  • a tube device comprising at least one target electrode in the form of a conductor lying substantially in a plane and spiralling outwardly from a selected point which includes the steps of, producing an electron stream of constant intensity which falls on said selected point, deflecting and rotating the path of said produced electron stream in accordance with phase displaced modulated wave energy, collecting energy produced by the stream falling on the target, and producing currents characteristic of the collected energy for signalling purposes.
  • the method of modulation by means of a tube device comprising a plurality of target electrodes each in the form of a conductor lying substantially in a plane and-spiralling outwardly with adjacent correspondingly curved peripheries in a direction normal to a selected path, which includes the steps of ,producing an electron stream of constant intensity which follows said selected path, deflecting and rotating the path of said electron stream in accordance with phase displaced modulated wave energy, collecting energy produced by the stream falling on the target electrodes and producing currents characteristic of the collected energy for signalling purposes.
  • the method of producing phase modulation by means of a tube device comprising at least one target electrode in the form of an anode lying substantially in a plane and spiralling outwardly from a selected point, which includes the steps of, amplitude modulating oscillations of carrier wave frequency, deriving from said modulated' oscillations two phase displaced voltages, producing an electron stream which falls along a path through said selected point, producing phase displaced voltages on said stream to deflect said stream from its normal path in accordance with the relative phases and amplitudes of the derived voltages to control the path of the stream on the target and producing current flow characteristic of the electrons collected by said target.
  • the method of producing phase or frequency modulation of carrier wave energy by means of an electron discharge tube having a target electrode including a pair of surfaces spiraling outwardly substantially in a plane from a selected point in said plane which includes the steps of, producing an electron stream which normally falls on said selected point, amplitude modulating oscillations of carrier wave frequency, deriving from said modulated oscilla- 6 tions two phase displaced voltages, producing force adjacent the path of said stream, characteristic of-said phase displaced voltages, to control the path which said stream follows and falls on said selected point, deflecting the path of said stream in accordance with phase displaced "modulating potentials to control its path on said target electrode, and producing currents characteristic of the current impulses caused by electrons falling on said target and of a frequency greater than the frequency of the modulating potentials for signalling purposes.
  • a discharge device having an electron stream.
  • a target electrode comprising a conducting surface spiralling outward substantially in a plane substantially normal to the path of said stream, means for modulating carrier wave oscillations in accordance with signalling potentials, means for deflecting said stream relative to its normal path in accordance with said modulated carrier wave oscillations, and a load connected in a path including said target electrode.
  • a discharge device having an electron emitting electrode, a target electrode comprising a plurality of surfaces spiralling outwardly in a surface substantially normal to the path between said emitting electrode'and said target electrode, and pairs of deflecting electrodes adjacent the path between said emitting electrode and said target electrode, means for producing phase displaced amplitude modulated waves and means for applying said phase displaced waves to said deflecting electrodes.
  • a discharge device having an electron emitting electrode, a target electrode comprising a plate, a portion of the boundaries of which is defined by r ae (where r radius from the electron stream focal point, a is a constant, and '9 is angular deviation from a straight datum line through said focal, point along which r 0), and pairs of deflecting electrodes adjacent the path between said emitting electrade and said target electrode, means for producing phase displaced amplitude modulated waves and means for applying said phase displaced waves to said deflecting electrodes.
  • an electron discharge device including, an electron .emission element, pairs of deflecting electrodes, a target electrode in the path of said emission from said elements said target electrode comprising similar conductors of considerable surface area having adjacent correspondingly curved boundaries and an anode located adjacent said target electrode to collect secondary emission therefrom when said element, deflecting electrodes, target and anode are energized, means for applying phase dis-- placed modulated waves to said deflecting electrodes, and a load circuit connected with said target.
  • a discharge device having an electron emitting electrode, a target electrode in the form of a substantially planar conducting surface spiralling from and substantially normal to the normal path of emission from said emitting electrode, and pairs of deflecting electrodes adjacent a path between said emitting electrode and said target electrode, means. for producing potentials characteristic of signal waves, means for amplitude modulating carrier wave oscillations in accordance wtih said produced potentials means for applying the modulated oscillations in phase displaced relation to said deflecting electrodes and said emitting electrode and said target electrode asonsas 7 is substantially as is the phase displacement of said modulated wave.
  • a discharge device having an electron emitting electrode, a target electrode comprising a pair of conducting members having' complementary curved boundaries, and pairs of deflecting electrodes adjacent the path between said emitting electrode and said target electrode, means for producing potentials which vary in accordance with the frequency of modulating waves, means for amplitude modulating carrier wave oscillations in accordance with said produced potentiais and means for applying the modulated oscillations in phase displaced relation to said defleeting electrodes.
  • an electron discharge device including an electron ray emitting electrode, a target electrode comprising a pair of conducting members having complementary curved boundaries, deflecting electrodes adjacent the path between said emitting electrode and said target electrode and a control electrode between said deflecting electrodes and said emitting electrodes, circuits for applying phase displaced oscillations modulated in amplitude by a first signal to said deflecting plates, circuits for applying other signal potentials between said control electrode and emitting electrode, and an output circuit connected with said target electrode.
  • an electron discharge device including, an electron emission element, an emission control element, pairs of deflecting plates and a target electrode in the path of said emission from said element said target electrode comprising electrodes'having complementary curved boundaries.
  • an electron discharge device having an electron emitting electrode, a control electrode, an electron collecting electrode, a pair 0! deflecting electrodes interposed between said electron emitting electrode and said collecting electrode, a pair of tar et electrodes interposed between said deflectin electrodes and said collecting electrode, circuits for applying modulated wave energy to said defiecting electrodes, and signal potentials to said control electrode, a utilization circuit coupled to said target electrodes and a connection between said collecting electrode and another electrode in said device.
  • the method of phase modulating alternating currents in accordance with signalling potentials by means of an electron pencil or ray producing means and a target comprising electrodes located in a surface normal to the path of said stream which includes the steps of producing wave energies modulated in accordance with signalling potentials of like frequency and displaced phase, producing forces adjacent the path of said ray to control the movement of said ray relative to its normal path in accordance with the modulating potentials on said wave energies, producing currents characteristic of the intensity of said electron ray, reversing the flow of said currents and controlling the phase of reversal of said currents as a function of the distance said ray has been displaced from its normal path and of the angular displacement of said ray from a selected datum line through the normal path of said ray.
  • an electron discharge device having an electron emitting electrode, a target electrode comprising a plurality of conductive surfaces spiralling outwardly substantially in a plane substan* tially normal to the path between said electron emitting electrode and said target electrode, and pairs of deflecting elements adjacent the path between said electron emitting electrode and said target electrode, means cooperating with the electrodes of said tube and said deflecting elements for anguiarly rotating and radially displacing the path of emission from said electron emitting electrode as a function of phase displaced wave voltages and modulating potentials to thereby control the path of said emission on said target electrode, and an output circuit coupled between the conductive surfaces of said target electrode and said electron emitting electrode.
  • an electron discharge device having an electron emission element, and a target electrode comprising a plurality of conducting surfaces having adjacent correspondingly curved boundaries spiralling outwardly substantially in a plane from a point in said plane on which the electron ray emitted from said emission element normally falls, means responsive to amplitude modulated wave energy for causing saidray to follow a rotary path on said target whose dimension are proportional to the amplitude of the modulated wave. whereby the time phase of the point at which the ray crosses the boundaries of the conducting surfaces of said target varies'with changes in the amplitude of the modulated wave. and a circuit connected with said conducting surfaces to utilise the constant amplitude variable phase current pulses flowing through said target.

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