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| [[File:Backward-wave Oszillator-Stockholm.jpg|thumb|Backward wave oscillator at Stockholm University operating in the Terahertz range]]
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| A '''backward wave oscillator''' ('''BWO'''), also called '''carcinotron''' (a trade name for tubes manufactured by [[Thomson-CSF|CSF]], now [[Thales Group|Thales]]) or '''backward wave tube''', is a [[vacuum tube]] that is used to generate [[microwaves]] up to the [[Terahertz radiation|terahertz]] range. It belongs to the [[traveling-wave tube]] family. It is an [[electronic oscillator|oscillator]] with a wide electronic tuning range.
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| An [[electron gun]] generates an [[electron beam]] that is interacting with a slow-wave structure. It sustains the [[oscillation]]s by propagating a traveling wave backwards against the beam. The generated [[electromagnetic wave]] power has its [[group velocity]] directed oppositely to the direction of motion of the electrons. The output power is coupled out near the electron gun.
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| It has two main subtypes, the '''M-type''', the most powerful, ('''M-BWO''') and the '''O-type''' ('''O-BWO'''). The O-type delivers typically [[Power (physics)|power]] in the range of 1 [[Watt|mW]] at 1000 GHz to 50 mW at 200 [[Hertz|GHz]]. Carcinotrons are used as powerful and stable microwave sources. Due to the good quality [[wavefront]] they produce (see below), they find use as illuminators in [[Terahertz radiation|terahertz]] imaging.
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| The backward wave oscillators were demonstrated in 1951, '''M-type''' by [[Bernard Epsztein]]
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| <ref>{{citeref patent|country=FR|number= 1035379 |inventor=Bernard Epsztein|pubdate=1959-03-31|title=Backward flow travelling wave devices|status=patent}}</ref>
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| and '''O-type''' by [[Rudolf Kompfner]]. The M-type BWO is a voltage-controlled non-resonant extrapolation of [[magnetron]] interaction, both types are tunable over a wide range of frequencies by varying the accelerating [[voltage]]. They can be swept through the band fast enough to be appearing to radiate over all the band at once, which makes them suitable for effective [[radar jamming]], quickly tuning into the radar frequency. Carcinotrons allowed airborne radar jammers to be highly effective. However, [[frequency-agile]] [[radar]]s can hop frequencies fast enough to force the jammer to use [[barrage jamming]], diluting its output power over a wide band and significantly impairing its efficiency. | |
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| Carcinotrons are used in research, civilian and military applications. For example, the Czechoslovak air defense detection systems [[Kopac passive sensor]] and [[Ramona passive sensor]] employed carcinotrons in their receiver systems.
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| == The slow-wave structure ==
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| [[Image:Space-harmonics.svg|thumb|250px|(a) Forward fundamental space harmonic (n=0),
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| (b) Backward fundamental]]
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| The needed slow-wave structures must support a [[radio frequency]] (RF) electric field with a longitudinal component; the structures are periodic in the direction of the beam and behave like microwave filters with passbands and stopbands. Due to the periodicity of the geometry, the fields are identical from cell to cell except for a constant phase shift Φ.
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| This phase shift, a purely real number in a passband of a lossless structure, varies with frequency.
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| According to Floquet's theorem (see [[Floquet theory]]), the RF electric field E(z,t) can be described at an [[angular frequency]] ω, by a sum of an infinity of "spatial or space harmonics" E<sub>n</sub>
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| :E(z,t)=<math>\sum_{n=-\infty}^{+\infty} {E_n}e^{j({\omega}t-{k_n}z)}</math>
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| where the [[wavenumber|wave number]] or propagation constant k<sub>n</sub> of each harmonic is expressed as:
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| k<sub>n</sub>=(Φ+2nπ)/p (-π<Φ<+п)
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| z being the direction of propagation, p the pitch of the circuit and n an integer.
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| Two examples of slow-wave circuit characteristics are shown, in the ω-k or [[Léon Brillouin|Brillouin]] diagram:
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| * on figure (a), the fundamental n=0 is a forward space harmonic (the [[phase velocity]] v<sub>n</sub>=ω/k<sub>n</sub> has the same sign as the [[group velocity]] v<sub>g</sub>=dω/dk<sub>n</sub>), synchronism condition for backward interaction is at point B, intersection of the line of slope v<sub>e</sub> - the beam velocity - with the first backward (n = -1) space harmonic,
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| * on figure (b) the fundamental (n=0) is backward
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| A periodic structure can support both forward and backward space harmonics, which are not modes of the field, and cannot exist independently, even if a beam can be coupled to only one of them.
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| As the magnitude of the space harmonics decreases rapidly when the value of n is large, the interaction can be significant only with the fundamental or the first space harmonic.
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| == M-type BWO ==
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| [[Image:M-bwo.svg|thumb|250px|Schematic of an M-BWO]]
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| The '''M-type carcinotron''', or '''M-type backward wave oscillator''', uses crossed static electric field E and [[magnetic field]] B, similar to the [[magnetron]], for focussing an electron sheet beam drifting perpendicularly to E and B, along a slow-wave circuit, with a velocity E/B. Strong interaction occurs when the [[phase velocity]] of one space harmonic of the wave is equal to the electron velocity. Both E<sub>z</sub> and E<sub>y</sub> components of the RF field are involved in the interaction (E<sub>y</sub> parallel to the static E field). Electrons which are in a decelerating E<sub>z</sub> electric field of the slow-wave, lose the [[potential energy]] they have in the static electric field E and reach the circuit. The sole electrode is more negative than the cathode, in order to avoid collecting those electrons having gained energy while interacting with the slow-wave space harmonic.
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| == O-type BWO ==
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| The '''O-type carcinotron''', or '''O-type backward wave oscillator''', uses an electron beam longitudinally focused by a magnetic field, and a slow-wave circuit interacting with the beam. A collector collects the beam at the end of the tube.
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| ===O-BWO spectral purity and noise ===
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| The BWO is a voltage tunable oscillator, whose voltage tuning rate is directly related to the propagation characteristics of the circuit. The oscillation starts at a frequency where the wave propagating on the circuit is synchronous with the slow space charge wave of the beam. Inherently the BWO is more sensitive than other oscillators to external fluctuations. Nevertheless its ability to be phase- or frequency-locked has been demonstrated, leading to successful operation as a heterodyne local oscillator.
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| ==== Frequency stability ====
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| The frequency–voltage sensitivity, is given by the relation
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| :<math>\Delta</math>f/f=1/2[1/(1+|v<sub>Φ</sub>/v<sub>g</sub>|)](<math>\Delta</math>V<sub>0</sub>/V<sub>0</sub>) | |
| The oscillation frequency is also sensitive to the beam current (called "frequency pushing"). The current fluctuations at low frequencies are mainly due to the anode voltage supply, and the sensitivity to the anode voltage is given by
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| :<math>\Delta</math>f/f=3/4[ω<sub>q</sub>/ω/(1+|v<sub>Φ</sub>/v<sub>g</sub>|)](<math>\Delta</math>V<sub>a</sub>/V<sub>a</sub>)
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| This sensitivity as compared to the cathode voltage sensitivity, is reduced by the ratio ω<sub>q</sub>/ω, where ω<sub>q</sub> is the angular plasma frequency; this ratio is of the order of a few times 10<sup>−2</sup>.
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| ==== Noise ====
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| Measurements on submillimeter-wave BWO's (de Graauw et al., 1978) have shown that a signal-to-noise ratio of 120 dB per MHz could be expected in this wavelength range. In heterodyne detection using a BWO as a local oscillator, this figure corresponds to a noise temperature added by the oscillator of only 1000–3000 K.
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| ==Notes==
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| {{reflist}}
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| ==References==
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| * Ramo S., Whinnery J. R., Van Duzer T. - Fields and Waves in Communication Electronics (3rd ed.1994) John Wiley & Sons
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| * Kantorowicz G., Palluel P. - Backward Wave Oscillators, ''in'' Infrared and Millimeter Waves, Vol 1, Chap. 4, K. Button ed., Academic Press 1979
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| * de Graauw Th., Anderegg M., Fitton B., Bonnefoy R., Gustincic J. J. - 3rd Int. Conf. Submm. Waves, Guilford University of Surrey (1978)
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| * Convert G., Yeou T., ''in'' Millimeter and Submillimeter Waves, Chap. 4, (1964) Illife Books, London
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| ==External links==
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| * [http://www.tubecollector.org/cv6124.htm Virtual Valve Museum] Thomson CSF CV6124
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