Abstract: 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.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.

Abstract: A coupled cavity type slow-wave structure for use in a travelling-wave tube, in which there are provided at a given spacing a plurality of partition walls within a circular wave-guide, with dielectric cylindrical pieces or spacers being confined between each pair of the aforesaid partition walls and in concentric relation to central apertures defined in the aforesaid partition walls. The dielectric cylindrical pieces are provided with holes slightly larger than the aforesaid central apertures in the partition walls, and the aforesaid central apertures are adapted to pass electron beams therethrough. In addition, the partition walls each have coupling slots, through which adjoining cavities are in communication with each other. The dielectric cylindrical pieces are brazed to the adjacent partition walls in gas-tight relation.

Abstract: Shielding means for preventing the emission of microwave radiation from microwave tubes which are typically comprised of an electron gun source, an intermediate body section and a collector section electrically isolated from the adjacent body section by means of a ceramic seal. A metallic shield has one end connected to the body section (or the collector section) and has its other end spaced from the collector section (or body section). An insulation layer is interposed in the gap space between the shield and the collector section (or body section). A microwave energy-lossy body is arranged in contact with one or both sides of the insulation layer to absorb microwave radiation transmitted along the insulation layer so as to prevent emission of potentially harmful microwave energy from the tube. The insulation layer may comprise either a linear or elongated tortuous undulating path.