Subcritical-voltage magnetron RF power source
Abstract
A system and method of operating a magnetron power source can achieve a broad range of output power control by operating a magnetron with its cathode voltage lower than that needed for free running oscillations (e.g., below the Kapitsa critical voltage or equivalently below the Hartree voltage) A sufficiently strong injection-locking signal enables the output power to be coherently generated and to be controlled over a broad power range by small changes in the cathode voltage. In one embodiment, the present system and method is used for a practical, single, frequency-locked 2-magnetron system design.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Muons, Inc., Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1568687
- Patent Number(s):
- 10374551
- Application Number:
- 15/430,497
- Assignee:
- Muons, Inc. (Batavia, IL)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
-
H - ELECTRICITY H03 - BASIC ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY H03B - GENERATION OF OSCILLATIONS, DIRECTLY OR BY FREQUENCY-CHANGING, BY CIRCUITS EMPLOYING ACTIVE ELEMENTS WHICH OPERATE IN A NON-SWITCHING MANNER
H - ELECTRICITY H05 - ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR H05H - PLASMA TECHNIQUE
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC0006261
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 02/12/2017
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Citation Formats
Kazakevich, Grigory M., Neubauer, Michael L., Lebedev, Valeri A., and Yakovlev, Vyacheslav P. Subcritical-voltage magnetron RF power source. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web.
Kazakevich, Grigory M., Neubauer, Michael L., Lebedev, Valeri A., & Yakovlev, Vyacheslav P. Subcritical-voltage magnetron RF power source. United States.
Kazakevich, Grigory M., Neubauer, Michael L., Lebedev, Valeri A., and Yakovlev, Vyacheslav P. Tue .
"Subcritical-voltage magnetron RF power source". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1568687.
@article{osti_1568687,
title = {Subcritical-voltage magnetron RF power source},
author = {Kazakevich, Grigory M. and Neubauer, Michael L. and Lebedev, Valeri A. and Yakovlev, Vyacheslav P.},
abstractNote = {A system and method of operating a magnetron power source can achieve a broad range of output power control by operating a magnetron with its cathode voltage lower than that needed for free running oscillations (e.g., below the Kapitsa critical voltage or equivalently below the Hartree voltage) A sufficiently strong injection-locking signal enables the output power to be coherently generated and to be controlled over a broad power range by small changes in the cathode voltage. In one embodiment, the present system and method is used for a practical, single, frequency-locked 2-magnetron system design.},
doi = {},
journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Aug 06 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Tue Aug 06 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
Works referenced in this record:
Amplitude Modulation of Magnetrons
patent, November 1951
- Engelmann, Herbert F.
- US Patent Document 2576108
Crossed-Field Reentrant Stream Tandem Slow Wave Circuit Tube
patent, June 1969
- Farney, George K.
- US Patent Document 3448330
Vector control of radio frequency signal in narrow band loads driven by injection locked magnetron using carrier amplitude modulation by spectral energy spreading via phase modulation
patent-application, September 2017
- Chase, Brian E.; Pasquinelli, Ralph J.
- US Patent Application 15/512264; 20170280549