Reduction of noise in strapped magnetron by electric priming using anode shape modification

Abstract

Noise reduction in a 2.45GHz strapped magnetron oscillator is experimentally demonstrated by electric priming using anode shape modification. The sideband noise is reduced by approximately 15dB at the nominal operating current and by 28dB at the start-oscillation current; this is due to electron prebunching into the π mode, resulting from the modulation of the drift velocity of the electrons by an azimuthally periodic electric field. In this experiment, a 4.3kV–330mA half-wave rectified input power is employed.