US2825765A - Amplifying circuit for micro-waves, especially millimeter waves - Google Patents

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US2825765A
US2825765A US475078A US47507854A US2825765A US 2825765 A US2825765 A US 2825765A US 475078 A US475078 A US 475078A US 47507854 A US47507854 A US 47507854A US 2825765 A US2825765 A US 2825765A
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  • the present invention relates to amplifying circuits for amplifying micro-wave signals, and more particularly to amplifiers for amplifying signals whose wave lengths are in the order of millimeters.
  • a circuit of the invention consists essentially of a rod of ferrite, or of a dielectric material having a very high magnetic permeability.
  • a D. C. magnetic field is directed along the axis of the rod and the rod is situated along the axis of a cavity, cylindrical in shape, into which electromagnetic energy is injected in the form of a TM wave polarized circularly and having a frequency very definitely lower than that of the wave to be amplified. For instance if it is desired to amplify a Wave having a frequency of 50,000 mc./s. a frequency of the order of 5,000 mc./s. will be taken as a frequency for the circularly polarized wave.
  • the ultra high frequency wave to be amplified is propagated before and after amplification, in circular coaxial guides, coaxial with the ferrite rod, in the shape of a TE wave.
  • the energy exchange is effected through the medium of the motions in the direction of the spin of electrons.
  • the circularly polarized wave with a relatively low frequency imparts energy to the electrons located in the ferrite rod and the direction of their spin has a precession motion accompanied by a mutation motion imparted thereto.
  • the ultra high frequency Wave is amplified by deriving energy from the mutation motion of the electrons. in the present specification and for greater convenience in expression, the wave having a relatively low frequency shall be called the supply wave.
  • Figure 1 represents a perspective view of an amplifier circuit in accordance with the invention.
  • Figure 2 is a geometrical diagram utilized in explaining the operation of the circuit in Figure 1.
  • the amplifying circuit comprises a cylindrical cavity 2 along the axis of which a ferrite rod 3 is located.
  • the cavity 2 is coupled with an input circular guide 4 through which the energy to be amplified arrives and with an output circular guide 5 through which the amplified energy comes out.
  • the two guides 4 and 5 are coaxial with the cavity 2.
  • a permanent magnet, or an electromagnet, 6 makes it possible to apply a D. C. magnetic field H to the ferrite rod, parallel therewith.
  • This magnet has the shape of a U and the two side branches of the U are pierced, near their ends, with two circular holes 7 and 8 which have the same diameter as the guides 4 and 5 and which are extensions of the latter.
  • radial fins are arranged, 9 and 10 respectively, of ferromagnetic material, which, on the one hand, ensure the continuity of the magnetic circuit and, on the other hand, constitute mode filters for the TE wave to be amplified.
  • the wave to be amplified is guided by the rod 3 (i. e. the" larger portion of its energy is localized in the rod and in the immediate vicinity thereto) in the form of a magnetic field with an ultra high frequency H located inside the rod and directed along its axis, and of an electric field in which the lines of force are circles concentric with the rod and the intensity of which decreases very rapidly when the distance to the rod increases.
  • the cavity 2 is coupled, through a slot 11 with a rectangular guide 12, the axis of which is perpendicular to that of the cavity 2.
  • This guide is energized by a micro-- wave oscillator tube 13 which generates the supply wave with an angular frequency 9.
  • the cavity 2 is dimensioned so as to resonate with two i TM waves of angular frequency 9 in the vicinity of the cut-off frequency of a circular wave guide having a diameter equal to that of the said cavity.
  • the two TM waves have magnetic fields (considered at points of the Oz axis of the cavity) of equal magnitudes, but perpendicular frequency of the cavity 2 is equal to 9, it is sufficient to introduce into the cavity energy with an angular frequency 9 through the slot 11 for this energy to be in the shape of a circularly polarized wave inside the cavity.
  • the magnetic field l-l of this wave rotates with the angular frequency 9 about the axis of the cavity 2.
  • the magnetizing of the ferrite is related to the orientation of the particles, nuclei or electrons, having a magnetic moment M equal to one or to an integral number of Bohrs magnetons, and a kinetic moment I equal to A2 (h/21r), 11 being Plancks constant.
  • M magnetic moment
  • I kinetic moment
  • Weiss forces allthe magnetic moments, not compensated, of the electrons, have a tendency for being oriented parallel to one another.
  • the electron which has a very large kinetic moment with respect to the torques applied thereto, reacts like a gyroscope.
  • the energy is supplied to the precession motion by the rotating magnetic field H of the waves having an angular frequency [2.
  • the electromagnetic wave to be amplified, with an angular frequency w, is amplified at the expense of the mutation motion of the electron.
  • H cos wt may be considered as the real portionof H e
  • Equations 8 then can he written; considering p and 0 as infinitely small quantitiesoftthe first order and neglecting the second order'terms: 1
  • electrons should. he, propagated with a velocity closetto u sli htly s a r t an, t at or the. el ctrons, simila ly n heea eof hepr nt v i th amplifiedmave sbou clha e anane'nla tr uensy w cl set to butsl sh ll Smaller ha then tu al nutat eni qu ney (lithe-Zeke n nsen e as-t o tinuously brake? thisnuta ieasi fi automation, e ayeet the first Equation. .11 V
  • Equation 13 In order to have a maximum coupling between the magnetic moment M and the magnetic field H,, 0 should be selected close to 90, i. e. sin 0 close to unity. There results, then, from Equation 13, that $2 should be close to 9, which, from Equation 9 gives the value of the D. C. field H (9 is assumed to be one of the data of the problem).
  • Equation 9 gives the value of the D. C. field H (9 is assumed to be one of the data of the problem).
  • Equation 10 also shows that H should be very large.
  • the cavity 2 should have a very large magnification factor for voltage; to this effect, the ferrite, rod in which the losses occur should have a very small diameter.
  • An amplifier for ultra-high frequency waves and operable in series between two cylindrical wave guides having a common axis and propagating said waves according to the TE mode comprising a cylindrical hollow resonator having its axis common with the axis of said guides and coupled to said guides, said resonator including a rod of insulating material of very high magnetic permeability arranged along its axis, means for impressing upon said rod 21 direct-current magnetic field parallel to said axis and means for exciting in said resonator an auxiliary circularly polarised TM wave, the frequency of which is lower than the frequency of said Waves to be amplified, said insulating material being a ferromagnetic material characterized by a resonance frequency and said resonator being tuned to the frequency of said auxiliary wave, the latter frequency substantially coinciding with the ferromagnetic resonance frequency of said material for a predetermined rotational direction of said circularly polarized waves.

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US3064201A (en) * 1962-11-13 Damon
US2980870A (en) * 1954-02-15 1961-04-18 Gen Precision Inc Microwave field rotator
US2908878A (en) * 1955-05-27 1959-10-13 Robert F Sullivan Microwave switching device
US2963661A (en) * 1956-05-09 1960-12-06 Bell Telephone Labor Inc Wave guide filter
US2965863A (en) * 1956-06-19 1960-12-20 Bell Telephone Labor Inc Magnetic tuned cavity resonator
US2950442A (en) * 1956-08-30 1960-08-23 Bell Telephone Labor Inc Passive signal intensifier
US2951216A (en) * 1956-12-17 1960-08-30 Hughes Aircraft Co Reflectionless microwave filter
US3066263A (en) * 1957-02-15 1962-11-27 Bell Telephone Labor Inc Gyromagnetic parametric amplifier
US2978649A (en) * 1957-05-20 1961-04-04 Bell Telephone Labor Inc Solid state microwave device
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US2970274A (en) * 1958-03-21 1961-01-31 Bell Telephone Labor Inc Solid state amplifier
US3078419A (en) * 1958-03-24 1963-02-19 Gen Electric Ferromagnetic amplifier and frequency converter
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