Coupled-cavity type traveling-wave tube with sever termination attenuators

摘要

A coupled cavity type traveling wave tube is provided with at least one sever termination means comprising a waveguide extending outwardly from one cavity. A ceramic type attenuator is brazed to the interior surface of one thin wall of the extending waveguide. A ceramic type plate is brazed to the exterior side of the same wall whose thickness is selected to permit the thin wall to undergo plastic deformation as a result of thermal deformation of the ceramic members. An enclosure wall is provided to surround at least the ceramic type plate. The enclosure wall is capable of maintaining a vacuum condition even in the case where the thin wall may develop a leak or hole.PP Two sever termination means may be provided. The sever termination means may be located on the same side of the coupled cavity type structure or they may be located on the same side and share a common dividing wall, said dividing wall being the aforementioned thin, plastically deformable wall.