US2874327A - Klystron oscillator and method of adjusting same - Google Patents

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US2874327A
US2874327A US469960A US46996054A US2874327A US 2874327 A US2874327 A US 2874327A US 469960 A US469960 A US 469960A US 46996054 A US46996054 A US 46996054A US 2874327 A US2874327 A US 2874327A
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    • 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
    • H01J25/10—Klystrons, i.e. tubes having two or more resonators, without reflection of the electron stream, and in which the stream is modulated mainly by velocity in the zone of the input resonator
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  • This invention relates to klystron oscillators, and, more particularly, to klystron oscillators of the two-cavity type and to methods of adjusting the same.
  • a known klystron oscillator of the two-cavity type employs flexible diaphragms associated with each of the cavities for both causing the tube to oscillate at its optimum point, and for adjusting .the frequency of said oscillations over a predetermined range.
  • A' flexible diaphragm for-m s one wall of each cavity and supports one side of each interaction space. The diaphragm is maintained in position by a tuning mechanism. Tubes of this type have been found to be excessively nosy during normal operation. Extensive research into the cause of the noise has led to the conclusion that .the principal source of noise within a two cavity klystron oscillator is microphonism, which has been found to derive from the flexible diaphragm type of construction.
  • One object of the invention is the provision of a twocavity klystron oscillator without the conventional type of flexible diaphragm structure.
  • a further object of the invention is a klystron oscillator of the two-cavity type adapted to operate at a fixed frequency.
  • Still a further object of the invention is a method for adjusting a two-cavity klystron oscillator to cause the latter to oscillate at a fixed frequency.
  • Another object of the invention is a method for adjusting a klystron oscillator employing a mechanism which may be removed from the tube.
  • the klystron oscillator of theinvention includes an electron gun at one end of an evacuated tube, a collector at the other end, and a pair of coupled resonant cavities disposed therebetween and through which an electron beam produced by the gun is projected.
  • the first or input cavity contains an interaction gap modulating the beam so that it is velocity modulated or bunched during its passage through a subsequently-arranged drift tube. Thereafter, it passes through the interaction gap of the second or output cavity, which extracts energy from the bunched beam and delivers it to an external circuit.
  • Theklystron of the invention is characterized by the absence of flexible diaphragms.
  • the input cavity is de fined by completely rigid, conductive 'walls preventing any appreciable change whatsoever in the interaction gap dimensions.
  • the resonant frequency of the input cavity is completely fixed by its predetermined'dim'ensions.
  • the output cavity has an externally unsupported, solid, metal, relatively rigid wall by whichits interaction gap may be varied enabling a change in the resonant frequency of the second cavity.
  • relatively rigid I mean that the stiffness of this wall of the output cavity, unsupported externally, is sufiiciently large to prevent any. appreciable change in the output interaction gap due to vibrations encountered during the normal operationtof the/tube, but-is low 2,874,327 Patented Feb. 17, 1959 2 enough to be capable of being slightly deformed by the application of a large external force.
  • the operating frequency of the tube is fixed by the application, which controls the dimensions of the completely rigid, input cavity.
  • the resonant frequency of the second or output cavity must have a predetermined value correlated to that of the input cavity.
  • the interaction gap of the output cavity is made oversize. That is to say, it is given dimensions which are at least 10% and preferably about 50% higher than those probably required of that cavity for proper operation. For example, for a required interaction gap of about .020 inch, the gap is preferably initially constructed with a spacing of about .030 inch.
  • tone defining the interaction gap therein is relatively rigid, though constructed not of the ordinary thin flexible dia breaks into oscillation at a critical spacing and the output power produced thereby slowly increased as the pushing continues.
  • the pushing has been extended to a point beyond the elastic limit of the wall material so that a permanent deformation of the wall has been produced. That is to say, the force applied and displacement obtained is sufficiently great to strain the relatively rigid cavity wall beyond the elastic limit of the wall material and permanently set it in a new position.
  • the pressure is released and the pressure-applying apparatus removed from the tube.
  • the deformed wall is now permanently set very close to the exact position required for optimum operation. Now, whenever the tube is excited, it will always produce the exact same mode and frequency of operation with maximum power. Further, all microphonism previously attributed to the construction of the cavities has been eliminated.
  • the klystron comprises an electron gun it) including a heating filament 11, an electron-emissive cathode 12, preferably of the dispenser type, and a focussing electrode 13.
  • a heating filament 11 e.g., an electron-emissive cathode 12 preferably of the dispenser type
  • a focussing electrode 13 Connected to these three electrodes are the usual terminal connections 14 which are sealed through an insulating wall 16, e. g., glass, of a surrounding enclosure.
  • an insulating wall 16 e. g., glass
  • the glass enclosure i6 is vacuum-tight sealed to the anode or resonant structure of the tube.
  • the resonant structure it comprises a solid copper body 21 in which are machined a pair of resonant cavities 22, 23.
  • the cavities 22, 23 communicate. by Way of a coupling aperture 24.
  • the front side of the block 21 is closed off by a copper plate 26, and. the rear side of the block 21 is also closed oil by another copper plate 27.
  • Through the centers of the plates 26 and 27 and the block 21 passes an aperture 28 communicating with each of the cavities 22, 23 and serving as a pathfor an electron beam produced by the gun It).
  • the electron beam is'collooted by a recessed. portion of the plate 27, called the collcctor electrode 30.
  • the electron beam passing through the aperture 23 communicates with the input cavity 22 via an interaction gap 31.
  • oscillations present in the cavity 22 velocity modulatethe beam as it passes across the gap 31.
  • the beam becomes bunched in a manner well known to the art, .after which it crosses an interaction gap 33 communicating with the second or outputcavity 23 producing oscillations therein.
  • a portion of the energy inthe output cavity is returned by way of the coupling aperture 24 to the input cavity to maintain the oscillations therein.
  • a transformer section 35 in this case a machined rectangular-shaped aperture, communicates with the output cavity 33 and serves as the coupling means for extracting energy therefrom.
  • This aperture is vacuum-tight sealed off by a mica Washer 36 powderglass sealed to a chrome-iron member 37, which in turn is secured to the body 21.
  • the member 37 is adaptedto have a wave-guide section (notshown) secured thereto for conveying away the energy extracted from the output cavity.
  • the interior of the tube is evacuated in the conventional way.
  • tuning of two-cavity klystrons is generally effected by changing the length of the-interaction gaps in the input and output cavities, thus changing the capacitance and the resonant frequency of the associated cavity.
  • the flexible diaphragms may be adjusted and the klystron tuned.
  • the present invention provides a klystron construction in which the flexible diaphragms are completely eliminated.
  • the portion 40 defining the input interaction gap 31 is mounted on a flat, solid, copper wall portion 41 which is completely rigid and immovable.
  • the resonant frequency of the input cavity is unalterably fixed at a predetermined value when the tube is completed.
  • the output cavity must be adjusted to a predetermined resonant frequency correlated to that of the input cavity. This is accomplished. by mounting the collector on a copper wall portion 42 ofthe plate 27 which is of reduced thickness relative to that. of the remainder of that plate 27 and has a value enabling, the wall to beslighftly deformed upon the application of an external force.
  • the reduced thickness portion 42' enables more ready displacement of the desired portion of the plate without fear of destroying the solder seal between the plate 27 and the block 21.
  • the portion 42 is displaccable by an external force, as notedbeiore, it is sufficiently stifi to resist all vibrations occurring during normal operation of the tube.
  • the displacement of the wall will vary the length of the output interaction gap 33 and thus the resonant frequency of the output cavity 23.
  • the interaction gap of the output cavity 23 is made oversize during the manufacture, thereby requiring an inward displacement of the deformable wall 42 to achieve the correct resonant frequency.
  • the displacing of the wall occurs while the desired operating potentials are applied to thetube. Then, while the tube is excited the wall is slowly pushed inwardly until slightly past the point at which the desired power output is achieved, after which the pushing force is released enabling the wall to spring slightly back to the exact desired position. The wall is permanently set in this latter new position.
  • the rear plate 27 has a rear- ⁇ yardly-extending cylindrical portion 45 to the end of: which is secured a water-tight cover plate 46.
  • the cover plate 46 is provided with inlet and outlet water couplings 47 by means of which cooling water may be circulated around the collector 30 to cool the latter.
  • the displacing of force-applying mechanism 50 is shown in phantom in the drawing surrounding the anode system. It comprises, simply, a strong, rigid, supporting housing 51 which embraces the front part of the anode system along a shoulder 52. The other or rear end of the housing 51 supports a reducing gear train 53 (shown diagrammatically) to one end of which is secured a rotatable, control knob 54, and to the other end of which is secured a drive screw 55.
  • the gear train had, for example, a gear reduction ratio of about 25:1, and the screw had a lead of .050 inch per revolution.
  • Rotation ofthe knob 54 in one direction causes the drive-screw 55 to advance forward and engage the rear of the collector 30, after which further rotation in the same direction will cause the wall 42 supporting the latter to be slightly deformed enabling a reduction in the length of the interaction gap 33;
  • the drive screw is secured in a water-tight manner to the cover plate 46 by means of a flexible diaphragm 48 allowing displacement of the drive screw 55.
  • the wall portion defining the output interaction gap in this case the collector 30 and wall portion 42, are moved inwardly while the tube has applied toit the desired potentials.
  • the.knob is rotated until the wall is pushed inwardly always past the point of desired operation, which is usually the point of peak power output, to allow the natural recovery of the wall 42 to carry it backward to precisely the exact position.
  • the original dimensions of the outputcavity are made sufiiciently oversize so that the wall 42 is always displaced beyond the elastic limit of the material of which it is constituted and is thus permanently set in its final position. foree is released by rotating the knob 54 in the opposite direction, the.
  • the thus-prozad tube may. be; considered essentially a fixed-fre- Thereafter, the
  • the thickness of the wall portion 42 by which the desired results are achieved depends entirely on the mass of the collector 30 which it supports, its own chemical constitution, the diameter of the narrowed portion 42 or of the cavity 23 and that of the collector 30, and the desired amount of rigidity required for the particular application.
  • a suitable thickness is about inch.
  • these values are not to be considered limiting since the import-ant requirements are that the wall may be slightly deformed in an axial direction and that it will be permanently set in its new position after deformation so that the tuning mechanism may be removed from the tube. This offers the additional advantage that no outside means are needed to fix or maintain the desired dimensions of the cavities.
  • a single tuning mechanism since it need not remain attached to the tube, may serve to adjust or tune a plurality of klystron tubes.
  • a fixed-frequency velocity-modulated electron discharge device comprising means for generating a beam of electrons, an evacuated envelope having relatively rigid and non-deformable .conductive wall portions defining at least two interconnected cavities of relatively fixed dimensions into which said electron beam is projected, one of said wall portions being ofreduced thickness for initially deforming the same whereby the dimensions of said cavities are initially adjusted for tuning one of said cavities, and a collector electrode adjacent one of said cavities for collecting said electron beam, after passing through said cavities.

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DEN11454A DE1014177B (de) 1954-11-19 1955-11-16 Verfahren zur Abstimmung eines Klystrons auf eine feste Frequenz durch plastische Verformung eines Konstruktionsteiles
ES0225044A ES225044A1 (es) 1954-11-19 1955-11-16 Método para ajustar un klystron a una frecuencia de oscilacion fija
GB32788/55A GB787704A (en) 1954-11-19 1955-11-16 Improvements in or relating to a method of adjusting a klystron to a fixed frequencyand a klystron adjusted by this method or suitable for carrying out this method
CH336910D CH336910A (de) 1954-11-19 1955-11-17 Verfahren zur Herstellung eines auf eine feste Frequenz abgestimmten Klystrons und gemäss diesem Verfahren hergestelltes Klystron
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