Multicolor storage tube

Multicolor storage tubes for applications with low frame rates have been built by modification of direct-viewing storage tubes. A perforated shadow mask is placed between the three writing guns and the storage surface. This shadow mask allows electrons from each writing gun to strike discrete storage areas, each containing a single aperture in register with a color dot on the view plate. In this way, it is possible to write and store electrical signals independently in adjacent color areas. Factors causing color impurity are described, together with the steps taken to minimize their effects. A tube has been built that shows good color purity in a 6-inch-diameter circle; it has 75 total color dots per inch resolution, 8 foot-lamberts brightness, and about 1-minute persistence. Other possible multicolor storage tube designs are discussed.     

Focus reflex modulation of electron guns

High resolution and low drive features have been successfully combined in a new type of electron gun for cathode-ray tubes. The gun has a spot-defining aperture of 0.007 inch upon which emission from a large cathode area is concentrated by a retarding electron lens. This unit modulates the beam by electron reflection, while focusing it upon the aperture ("Focus Reflex Modulation"). Immediately ahead of the aperture, a modulated virtual cathode is formed with an emission capability of over four amperes per square centimeter. A1000-microa beam with a 6° divergence is controlled by a signal of 12 volts centered at ground potential. Highlight brigntness of 250 foot lamberts was read at 17,500 volts, while more than 500 lines were resolved on a television test pattern. In more recent forms of the FRM gun,1600 microa are measured in the screen return, out of1800-microa cathode current. This is 88 per cent over-all transmission, using the same defining aperture (0.007 inch). 18 volts of drive signal will completely modulate the above current.     

大屏幕彩色显像管电子枪聚焦性能分析

电子枪聚焦性能是由电极结构决定的，本文通过计算机模拟的方式对3种典型的用于大屏幕彩色显像管电子枪的为形貌进行了系统的模拟，对各电子枪聚焦特性进行了分析和比较表明电子束形成区，主透镜结构对屏幕中心，角部的着屏光点及不同电流下了聚焦的稳定性都有较大的影响。     

The design and performance of grid-controlled, high-perveance electron guns

The focusing electrode and a probe projecting through the cathode serve as control electrodes for the current from a convergent-beam electron gun. The principal advantage of this type of "grid" is that there is no interception of the high-current-density beam by the probe-grid. This paper presents the design procedure and experimental results for typical probe-gridded guns. The design procedure is used to obtain the desired perveance, beam diameter, and approximate laminar electron flow. The probe geometry that results in a minimum beam distortion is discussed. The range of values of amplification factor obtainable and the influence of probe geometry on this factor are discussed. The magnetic field required for focusing the beam from a probe-gridded gun is compared with that required for perfect laminar flow and for focusing the beam from a nongridded gun of similar design. An electrolytic tank in conjunction with an analog computer was used to plot electron trajectories, with the effect of space charge included, for the probe-gridded gun and a similar nongridded gun. A comparison of the electron optics of the gridded and nongridded gun is made. Electrical breakdown and beam current during the interpulse time are problems considered. Methods used to minimize electrical breakdown and interpulse beam current are presented. Several models of probe-gridded guns were constructed. The measured characteristics of these guns demonstrate that the advantages of grid control can be obtained with only a minor effect on gun perveance and beam focusing.     

A 20 to 40-KMC backward-wave oscillator

A 20 to 40-kmc backward-wave oscillator is described which employs a single-tape helix with a mean diameter of 0.039 inch and a length of 1.75 inch supported internally by a triangular sapphire rod. Physically, the helix is mounted in a hole drilled in the ridge of the output ridge waveguide, and a closely spaced hollow beam is located on the outside of the helix. The output from the helix passes through a short section of coaxial line to the ridge waveguide and then along this guide and through the vacuum envelope to an external mating ridge waveguide. The two sections of guide meet the envelope at an angle of 13 degrees. Output is obtained from the oscillator from 18 to 40 kmc with a voltage range of 300 to 2600 volts. The RF output varies relatively smoothly and exceeds 2 milliwatts with 5-ma collector current over the entire band from 21 to 37.5 kmc. The total variation of power over this band is 6 db. It is expected that this tube will be useful for signal-generator-type applications.     

The design and performance of a magnetron-injection gun

The space-charge flow solutions described by Kino and others in connection with the crossed-field carcinotron gun can be generalized to form the basis of a magnetron-injection gun design suitable for the production of hollow electron beams. In the first part of the paper this generalization is described. From the resulting flow it is possible to determine by an approximate method the electrodes to produce a gun of desired perveance with nearly uniform current density at the cathode. This technique has been used to design guns having ratios of cathode length to a diameter considerably greater than unity. The close agreement between the results obtained on several experimental guns and the theoretical predictions is described, along with the effect of departures from the prescribed fields given by the design method.     

A new electron gun for picture display with low drive signals

The paper discribes an approach to the problem of picture tube guns for small signal service. A Pierce-type cathode delivers a collimated parallel beam of 1600 microamperes at 250 volts (microperveance: 0.4). This beam is injected into a cylindrical cavity of appreciable length (3/4-inch long, 1/4-inch diameter). It is focused upon a small aperture at the far end using a parabolic axis potential. This axial focusing field is approximated by three cylinder segments at two intermediate voltages. To modulate the beam by lateral deflection, the cavity is again bisected through an axial plane and signal voltage is set up between half cylinders. This modulation by two crossed-electrostatic fields ("CFM" modulation) has been successfully applied in transistorized television, using a seven-volt video signal on a beam of 900 microamperes.     

动态聚焦电子枪的模拟与实验研究

动态聚焦技术是为了满足大屏幕高分辨率彩色显像管及高分辨率彩色显示管的发展需求而产生的一项新技术。在本文中，作者首先提出了一种动态聚焦电子枪结构，进行了数值计算与分析，制作了动态聚焦电子枪并装管实验。通过对实验样管的测试与分析。证实该枪性能良好，动态聚集效果明显。     

The effect of tolerances in conical flow Pierce guns II—The perturbed flow in the magnetic field

The first-order perturbations to a beam initially in nonrippling Brillouin flow, which results from several common manufacturing errors in conical flow Pierce guns, are calculated. The manufacturing errors are changes in cathode-anode spacing, changes in cathode curvature, tilt, and transverse displacement of the cathode-focus electrode assembly, and tilt and transverse misalignment of the whole gun to the magnetic field. Errors in cathode-to-focus electrode spacing are not discussed. The tolerances which destroy the rotational symmetry of the gun are shown to cause the smooth beam to perform a helical motion; the tolerances which preserve the symmetry are shown to produce an undulating beam. Using the results of Part I of this paper [1], the magnitudes of individual gun tolerances are related to the effects they produce in the magnetic field. A method of setting limits to the individual gun tolerances is presented and illustrated by calculating tolerances for a gun used in an X-band traveling-wave tube. The calculated tolerances are found to have values which may readily be achieved by careful engineering.     

A high-sensibility cathode-ray tube for millimicrosecond transients

A high-sensibility cathode-ray tube has been developed for the photographic recording of transients in the millimicrosecond region. The new cathode-ray tube uses a traveling-wave deflection system with magnetic focusing and attains a spot diameter of 0.001 inch. The first models have a sensibility of 0.026 volt/trace width and a writing speed of 10¹¹trace widths/second. Improved production models are expected to have sensibilities of less than 0.02 volt/trace width. In this particular application, sensibility in volts per trace width and writing speed in trace widths per second are the significant performance characteristics. Analysis of the dependency of these on several important parameters in the general cathode-ray tube design shows that the use of a much smaller spot and display than is conventional results in large gains in sensibility. Analysis also indicates that maximum sensibility is achieved with the deflection plates located in the lens region. Magnetic focusing is used to permit this optimum deflection plate location. To allow the choice of long plates with short effective transit time, a traveling-wave deflection system is employed. Postdeflection acceleration is introduced to obtain high writing speeds.     

A new high-performance color picture tube: The mask-focusing color tube

From a technical point of view, improvements of conventional color picture tubes could be regarded as having reached their limits. In this respect, we have found that the mask-focusing tube can achieve further improvements when combined with the black-matrix technique, a high-performance gun, dot screen structure, high-matrix transparency, and large gun electrode diameter. Two-fold improvements of brightness and contrast have been obtained with mask transparency twice that of conventional tubes, 22-percent higher matrix transparency, and mask-focusing. A 20-30 percent less deflection power has also been achieved with 110° deflection, neck diameter, and 1:2 mask-focusing voltage ratio. A 20-percent less spot diameter and a sharp beam distribution have been obtained by a new multistage-focusing electron gun in a delta arrangement in the 35.5-mm neck diameter.     

A new type of cathode-ray tube with a crossed-field gun

This paper introduces a new type of cathode-ray tube with a crossed-field electron gun which produces an electron beam in a region where a nonuniform magnetic field and an electric field cross perpendicularly. The new configuration gives increased freedom in the design of crossed-field guns. As a result, a long, directly heated cathode can be readily applied to a gun structure which makes high perveance and instant operation possible with much improved cathode heating efficiency. The new gun provides ion trap action by virtue of a magnetic field which separates ions from electrons due to the difference in their masses. A new type of cathode-ray tube using this gun not only demonstrates these features but also requires relatively low operational voltages for beam acceleration and control electrodes. The paper includes an analysis of electron motion in a crossed field with a nonuniform magnetic field. It also shows practical configuration of electrodes and current characteristics of the gun.     

`Field' guns: electromagnetic launchers

The tank weapons of the future may be able to fire without any help from unstable, dangerous chemical reagents. Instead they may use electromagnetic guns. In an electromagnetic gun, the projectile is pushed by an electromagnetic field pressure. In principle this force can be propagated at the speed of light, so in principle, the electromagnetic gun should be able to produce much higher velocities than powder guns. As well as the higher muzzle velocity, the EM gun has logistical advantages for the tank crew that has to use it. These advantages come at a cost in terms of convenience, however. The gun system has a low energy density, which means that the launcher must be heavier and bulkier than a conventional gun barrel. The author describes the formation of the railgun armatures and the design of railguns. The research being carried out in this area in the UK is discussed. The testing of the guns is also discussed     

Computer Simulation of Axis-Encircling Beams Generated by an Electron Gun with a Permanent Magnet System

Results from computer aided design of a novel electron gun generating axis-encircling beams are presented and discussed. Numerical experiments were performed by the new version of the software package GUN-MIG named GUN-MIG/CUSP. It is based on a self-consistent relativistic model and is developed as a problem oriented tool for analysis of electron-optical systems with magnetron injection guns (MIG) and electron guns with field reversal (cusp guns), forming axis-encircling beams. As a result of the simulations an electron-optical design of a novel electron gun with permanent magnet system was accomplished. The gun is expected to form high quality beams with small velocity spread and beam ripple. Parameters of the generated beams are appropriate for a prospective weakly relativistic high harmonic large orbit gyrotron (LOG). The development of such device is in progress now at the Research Center for Development of Far-Infrared Region (FIR Center) at Fukui University.     

关于磁控注入式电子枪的噪声问题

磁控注入式电子枪能提供高导流系数的电子注,可应用于大功率微波管中。但是,通常认为这种电子枪属于交叉场型的,具有交叉场器件固有高噪声的特性。这使它的应用受到了限制。 有两个实验打破了上述这种看法。1962年C波段低噪声行波管应用磁控注入式电子枪获得了3.1dB的噪声系数。1965年S波段中功率前向波放大器获得了3.5dB的噪声系数。但这些器件均限于中小功率范围,阴极长度很短,即阴极长径比很小的情况;而对于大功率管中使用的磁控注入式电子枪,能否获得足够小的噪声系数的问题,尚有待于进一步深入研究。 本文简要讨论了影响大功率微波管中磁控注入式电子枪噪声的主要因素以及通过改变阴极区磁场分布的方法来减小噪声的实验结果。     

Triode electron injection systems for hollow beams

Novel electron guns, in which a conical hollow electron beam is projected at a large angle to the axis into a coaxial deflection region, were tested. The guns have a triode structure so that the perveance can be varied easily. The strong deflection increases the effective perveance of the beam and makes the trajectories insensitive to current variations. In the form of a device with the gun at a large radius and projecting the beam inward, the electron paths are sensitive to scattering in the gun. The inverted gun, projecting the beam outward, is relatively free from this difficulty. The systems generally behave as expected, and should be quite useful for initiating variable-current hollow electron beams in various available focusing arrangements.     

Theory of cathode trajectory characterization by canonical mapping transformation

The paraxial lens theory cannot directly be applied to the cathode trajectories inside the gun. This inconvenience makes the interpretation of cathode trajectories difficult since one cannot use the physical concepts familiar in the paraxial lens theory, such as focal length and magnification factor. We have proposed the canonical mapping transformation (CMT) to describe the electron trajectories inside the gun by relating the ray conditions on the cathode surface to those in the crossover plane. The method takes as variables the distance along the surface and the sine of the ray angle with respect to the surface normal to define ray conditions. It has been shown that the CMT can be characterized by a small number of optical parameters. One of the parameters is the 'electron gun focal length', an extension of the image side focal length in the paraxial lens theory. The crossover size of a triode gun can be calculated from the electron gun focal length and the initial transverse energy spread. The calculation predicts the dependence of the crossover size on the grid voltage due to the change in the electron gun focal length. The prediction is compared with the measurement and shows good agreement with it. Since the CMT optical parameters can be calculated from the representative trajectories only and as they predict practically all the necessary source properties of guns, the CMT can be used as a practical tool in the designing of various types of electron guns.     

Computer-aided design of electron guns for injected-beam crossed-field amplifiers

A two-dimensional self-consistent computer-aided CFA gun analysis program is discussed which can be used to solve for the characteristics of "long" crossed-field guns with arbitrary electrode shapes and including the effects of space charge. The results of analyzing a "long" Kino gun show excellent agreement between the theoretical gun parameters and those obtained by the computer analysis. The model shows promise of also being useful in the analysis of noise in CFA guns.     

Low-noise klystron amplifiers

The principles of low-noise guns have been applied to klystron amplifiers with good corroboration of the theory. In the past, many people thought that klystrons had inherently high noise figures, while others advanced the theory that low-noise guns might be used with klystrons as well as with wave tubes. The development to be described here shows that the former impression is not true and verifies that low-noise klystron amplifiers are possible. The most obvious difference between the guns for low-noise klystron amplifiers and those typical of low-noise traveling-wave tubes is the higher beam current which is required for adequate klystron gain. A byproduct of this higher current is a wide dynamic range. In addition to the development of the electrical parameters, a major effort went into klystron construction techniques somewhat peculiar to low-noise klystron amplifiers. The data taken show that alignment of the low-noise gun electrodes with the drift tube, alignment of the beam with the magnetic field, elimination of the collector's secondary electrons from the beam, and cleanliness of the tube are of primary importance in constructing a low-noise klystron amplifier. Several two-cavity, low-noise klystron amplifiers were built for operation in both S-band and C-band. The typical low-level gain was 11.5 db, and the saturated power output was 180 mw. Several tubes exhibited noise figures below 9 db; the lowest value obtained was 6.7. db.     

A method of reducing the effects of anode aperture in high-perveance convergent electron guns

A new theoretical method of designing convergent electron guns of high perveance for use in microwave tubes is presented here. A differential equation which represents electron trajectories in a convergent electron stream has been deduced under certain approximations. Electron trajectories in an electron stream and boundary values along its boundary were numerically calculated by solving the differential equation by means of an electronic computer. Boundary values on the virtual anode surface under space-charge-limited conditions were used as the initial values for the calculations. Focusing electrodes were determined to satisfy the boundary conditions on the stream boundary. The design procedure is also shown. The electron guns designed by this method are somewhat different in structure from the conventional ones which are usually designed experimentally rather than theoretically. In these new electron guns, nearly uniform current densities will be obtained over the whole cathode area, while in conventional convergent guns of high perveance, electron emission density near the center of the cathodes is usually reduced due to the influence of the anode aperture. Laminar flow will be obtained at points near the minimum stream diameter also in guns designed by this method. Digital computer experiments were performed and the results proved this hypothesis to be reasonable. An electron gun of 1.72 × 10^-6perveance and area convergence ratio of 70:1 is shown as an example.