Helix and Coupled-Cavity Traveling-Wave Tubes

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1973, Pages 280-298

  Mendel, John T ^a  

^a RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COUNTERMEASURES;

COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; ELECTRON TUBES, MICROWAVE; SATELLITES - ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT;

ELECTRON TUBES, TRAVELING WAVE;

EID: 0015600424     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/PROC.1973.9032     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. W. R. Ayers, “High power applications of the connected-ring structures in traveling-wave tubes,” Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford Univ., Stanford, Calif., 1958.
2. W. R. Beam and D. J. Blattner, “Phase angle distortion in traveling-wave tubes,” RCA Rev., vol. 17, pp. 86–99, 1956.
3. A. H. W. Beck, Space Charge Waves and Slow Electromagnetic Waves. New York: Pergamon, 1958.
4. J. Benton, H. Smith, and P. Wolcott, “Latest advances in space TWT's,” presented at the AIAA 3rd Communications Satellite Systems Conf., Los Angeles. Calif., Apr. 1970.
5. C. K. Birdsall and G. R. Brewer, “Traveling wave tube characteristics for finite values of C,” IRE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. ED-1, pp. 1–11, Aug. 1954.
6. L. Brillouin, “The traveling-wave tube (discussion of waves for large amplitudes),” Proc. IRE, vol. 41, pp. 1196–1206, Dec. 1949.
7. M. O. Bryant, “Some experiments on the effect of a circuit sever on high-power traveling-wave tube efficiency,” in Microwaves, Proc. 4th Int. Congr. Microwave Tubes. Eindhoven, The Netherlands: Centrex, 1963.
8. M. Chodorow, and E. J. Nalos, “The design of high power traveling-wave tubes,” Proc. IRE, vol. 44, pp. 649–659, May 1956.
9. R. J. Collier, G. D. Helm, J. P. Laico, and K. M. Striny, “The ground station high-power traveling-wave tube,” Bell Syst. Tech. J., vol. 42, pp. 1829–1861, July 1963.
10. C. C. Cutler and D. J. Brangaccio, “Factors affecting traveling-wave tube power capacity,” IRE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. ED-3, pp. 9–23, June 1953.
11. C. C. Cutler, “The calculation of traveling-wave-tube gain,” Proc. IRE, vol. 39, pp. 914–917, Aug. 1951.
12. C. C. Cutler, “The nature of power saturation in traveling-wave tubes,” Bell Syst. Tech. J., vol. 35, p. 847, July 1956.
13. H. K. Detweiler, “Characteristics of magnetically focused large-signal traveling-wave amplifiers,” Electron Phys. Lab., Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Tech. Rep. RADC TR-68-433, Oct. 1968.
14. J. E. Grant, M. G. Benz, and D. L. Martin, “A 2-kW multioctave TWT focused with samarium cobalt magnets,” IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. ED-19, pp. 86–89, Jan. 1972.
15. K. J. Harker, “Periodic focusing of beams from partially shielded cathodes,” IRE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. ED-2, pp. 13–19, Oct. 1955.
16. R. G. E. Hutter, Beam and Wave Electronics in Microwave Tubes. Princeton, N. J.: Van Nostrand, 1959.
17. G. T. Konrad, “Harmonic generation in nonlinear beam-plasma systems,” Electron Phys. Lab., Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Tech. Rep. 112, Jan. 1969.
18. R. Kompfner, The Invention of the Traveling-Wave Tube. San Francisco, Calif.: San Francisco Press, 1964.
19. J. P. Laico, H. L. McDowell, and C. R. Moster, “Medium-power traveling-wave tube for 6000 Mc radio relay,” Bell Syst. Tech. J., vol. 35, pp. 1285–1346, Nov. 1956.
20. J. G. Meeker and J. E. Rowe, “Phase focusing in linear-beam devices,” IRE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. ED-9, pp. 257–266, May 1962.
21. D. O. Melroy, Performance of Linear Beam Amplifiers with Multiple Input Signals. Bell Telephone Labs., April 1963.
22. J. T. Mendel, C. F. Quate, and W. H. Yocom, “Electron beam focusing with periodic permanent magnet fields,” Proc. IRE, vol. 42, pp. 800–810, May 1954.
23. J. T. Mendel, “Magnetic focusing of electron beams,” Proc. IRE, vol. 43, pp. 327–331, Mar. 1955.
24. O. Nilsson, “Nonlinear distortion in traveling-wave tubes,” Charmers Univ. of Tech. Res., Rep. 67, 1966.
25. A. Nordsieck, “Theory of the large signal behavior of traveling-wave amplifiers,” Proc. IRE, vol. 41, pp. 630–637, May 1953.
26. J. R. Pierce, Traveling Wave Tubes. Princeton, N. J.: Van Nostrand, 1950.
27. H. C. Poulter, “Larger signal theory of the traveling-wave tube,” Electron. Res. Lab., Stanford Univ., Stanford, Calif., Tech. Rep. 73, Jan. 1954.
28. J. L. Putz, “Non-linear effects in velocity modulated beams,” Electron. Res. Lab., Stanford Univ., Stanford, Calif., Tech. Rep. 33, Mar. 1951.
29. W. W. Rigrod and J. A. Lewis, “Wave propagation along a magnetically-focused cylindrical electron beam,” Bell Syst. Tech. J., vol. 33, pp. 399–416, Mar. 1954.
30. J. E. Rowe, “Design information on large-signal traveling-wave amplifiers,” Proc. IRE, vol. 44, pp. 200–210, Feb. 1956.
31. J. E. Rowe, “A large signal analysis of the traveling wave amplifier,” Electron Phys. Lab., Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Tech. Rep. 19, June 1955.
32. M. K. Scherba and J. E. Rowe, “Characteristics of multisignal and noise-modulated high-power microwave amplifiers,” IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. ED-18, pp. 11–24, Jan. 1971.
33. M. K. Scherba, “High power octave bandwidth helix traveling-wave tubes employing velocity resynchronization and dispersion shaping techniques,” presented at the 1970 Int. Electron Devices Meeting, Washington, D. C., Oct. 1970.
34. A. W. Scott, “Why a circuit sever affects traveling-wave tube efficiency,” IRE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. ED-9, pp. 35–40, Jan. 1962.
35. S. Sensiper, “Electromagnetic wave propagation on helical conductors,” MIT Res. Lab. of Electron., Mass. Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, Mass., Tech. Rep. 194, 1951.
36. F. Sterzer and W. W. Siekanowicz., “The design of periodic permanent magnets for focusing of electron beams,” RCA Rev., vol. 28, p. 39, Mar. 1967.
37. P. K. Tien, “Traveling-wave tube helix impedance,” Proc. IRE, vol. 41, pp. 1617–1623, Nov. 1953.
38. P. K. Tien, “A large-signal theory of traveling-wave amplifiers,” Bell Syst. Tech. J., vol. 35, pp. 349–374, 1956.
39. D. A. Watkins, Topics in Electromagnetic Theory. New York: Wiley, 1958.