On the theory of ion noise in microwave tubes

Author

Manheimer, Wallace M.

Author_Institution

Plasma Phys. Div., Nat. Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA

Volume

27

Issue

4

fYear

1999

fDate

8/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1146

Lastpage

1163

Abstract

This work examines from a theoretical perspective recent experimental work regarding ion noise in the CPI continuous wave illuminator (CWI) and also earlier related ion measurements on a CW klystron. The measurements are to a large extent complementary, the former doing only microwave measurement, the latter doing only ion current measurements. The measurements are compared to theory which seems applicable. Many results do agree at least qualitatively with theory

Keywords

electron device noise; microwave measurement; microwave tubes; CPI continuous wave illuminator; EEV K376 UHF tube; Penning trap; X-band tube; confinement time; depressed collector; integral equation; ion current measurements; ion current oscillations; ion noise; ionisation cross section; ionisation multiplicative factor; microwave measurement; microwave tubes; normal beam current collector; phase spectrum; scalloped beam; secondaries; Cranes; Current measurement; Frequency; Klystrons; Manufacturing; Microwave measurements; Microwave theory and techniques; Plasma measurements; Production; UHF measurements;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0093-3813

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/27.782295

Filename

782295