Abstract: A gas laser tube assembly includes a gas laser tube having ends, optical elements each vacuum-tightly closing off a respective end of the gas laser tube, each of the optical elements including a washer-shaped ceramic flange and a terminating plate being transparent to laser radiation and thermally matched to the ceramic flange, the ceramic flange having an outer rim joined to the gas laser tube and a central beam passage opening formed therein, and the terminating plate having two base surfaces, and glass solder connecting the terminating plate to the ceramic flange with the terminating plate covering the beam passage opening and projecting beyond the ceramic flange with at least one of the base surfaces thereof and a method of manufacturing the same.

Abstract: A dispenser cathode such as a metal capillary cathode for electrical discharge devices which has a hollow cylindrical head portion 1 which carries a porous emission wafer 3 of a refractive material at its upper end and covers a cathode cartridge 2 which contains an active material supply 4 and comprises an epoxy helical heater 5 surrounded by a metal sleeve 6. Two part division of the structure allows separate testing possibility of the emission wafer and the heater/supply cartridge and also allows an improvement in the heat transmission from the heater to the emission wafer. For this purpose, a hollow cylindrical head portion 1 is conically-shaped and expands outwardly toward the cathode cartridge 2 and the upper part of the cathode cartridge 2 is conically tapered so as to mate with the hollow cylindrical head portion and the two portions are connected together wherein their conical side walls are attached by welding in the upper portion of the drawn up metal sleeve.

Abstract: A waveguide laser having a discharge channel and two cooling channels formed in ceramic parts have the cooling channels being broader than the discharge channel, and the cooling profile parts which contain the cooling channels being soldered to both sides of the discharge profile part containing the discharge channel. The discharge profile part is formed of a channel part and a cover part.

Abstract: In an ion laser having a discharge channel extending through a ceramic tube, a coil of thermal conductive material is placed around the ceramic tube and the tube and coil combination are inserted into a bore of a heat eliminating device. The tube, coil, and heat eliminating device are soldered to one another so as to provide clearance between individual turns of the coil, thereby providing good cooling characteristics and enhanced power of the laser without risk of breakage of the ceramic tube.

Abstract: In a discharge tube for ion lasers, cooling disks and insulator tubes are provided so that laser power is increased and relatively inexpensive ceramic can be used for the insulator tubes. Cooling packets are disposed between the insulator tubes and are composed of metallic cooling disks alternating with spacer disks.

Abstract: A gas laser tube assembly includes:a gas laser tube having two ends; andtwo optical elements each vacuum-tightly closing off a respective one of the ends of the gas laser tube, at least one of the optical elements at one end of the gas laser tube including a flange and a terminating body formed of a given material;the flange:being rigid, being formed of a metal thermally matched to the given material of the terminating body, being inserted into and connected to the gas laser tube, having the shape of a washer with two sides and a central beam passage opening formed therein, and having a meandering profile with a plurality of right angle turns immediately following each other and pointing alternatingly toward one of the sides of the flange; andthe terminating body:being formed of a material transparent to laser radiation, having the shape of a plate, being inserted into the beam passage opening, being connected to the flange by glass solder, and being extended beyond the tangential plane of both of the sides o

Abstract: A travelling-wave tube comprising a delay line in the form of a helix line which is disposed inside of a solid metal vacuum envelope. A high-performance travelling-wave tube whose delay line is distinguished by very good dissipation of the stray heat. A large bandwidth results by providing the delay line with a core of insulator material which has a metal layer at its inside and outside generated surfaces.

Abstract: A transversely excited gas laser, includes: an elongated gas-filled discharge chamber having an optical axis; a main cathode electrode and a main anode electrode extended along the optical axis in the discharge chamber defining a main discharge space between the main cathode and the main anode electrodes through which the optical axis extends, the main electrodes bordering two sides of the main discharge space leaving two other sides open; two pairs of auxiliary electrodes each being extended parallel to the optical axis in vicinity of a respective one of the open sides of the main discharge space and mutually spaced apart by a given distance, each of the auxiliary electrodes including a conductor and a dielectric shell surrounding the conductor, each of the auxiliary electrodes being spaced from all of the other electrodes by a set breakdown distance; and a driving unit connected to the electrodes, the driving unit supplying different potentials to the main cathode and main anode electrodes producing a main

Abstract: Directly heated oxide cathode especially for velocity-modulated tubes in pulse operation, characterized by the features that an outer conductor is designed cylindrically and an inner conductor is coaxially arranged by means of a ceramic support disc, and that on one end face, a metal layer connected to the outer conductor and the inner conductor is provided with an electron-emitting oxide layer.

Abstract: The disclosure related to an improved Klystron-tetrode which has some of the characteristics of a klystron and a tetrode having a hollow beam and tuned cavity resonators for optimizing the phase relation between resonator gaps.

Abstract: A traveling-wave tube having a cylindrical vacuum envelope surrounded by a permanent-magnet system of ring-shaped pole washers and magnet rings respectively disposed therebetween and having opposite polarizations alternatingly in axial direction, which includes spacer rings formed of nonmetallic material surrounding the cylindrical vacuum envelope and spacing the magnet rings therefrom, corresponding magnet rings and spacer rings being soldered together into respective strong and stable units.

Abstract: Method of removing distortions in amplifiers which includes forming a difference between a part of an input voltage and of an output voltage of an amplifier so that only the distortions remain, amplifying the difference voltage by means of another amplifier to a value equal to that of the distortion part in the output of the first-mentioned amplifier and then combining the output voltage of both amplifiers so that distortions in the sum voltage are mutually compensated, including supplying a given input power to a first amplifier and twice the given input power to a phase equalization element, the first amplifier delivering output power with distortions, coupling out part of the output power via a coupling branch having directional waveguide couplers and feeding the output power part, with like amplitude though opposite phase, via a phase shifter element as well as a damping element, while opening a blocking diode, to a branch formed of the phase equalization element and an auxiliary amplifier, taking part of

Abstract: Flat viewing screen having a matrix of selectively addressable picture elements, including two mutually parallel support plates being vacuum-tightly connected to each other and having sides facing each other, at least one separately addressable electrode disposed on each of the sides, a multiplicity of spacers each being assigned to one picture element for spacing said support plates from each other, each spacer including a pin being integral with and protruding from one of the support plates and a hollow cylinder having an inner surface and a bottom and being integral with and protruding from the other of the support plates, each pin being inserted into one hollow cylinder at a space from the inner surface and contacting the bottom of the hollow cylinder, and a method of producing the same.

Abstract: Flat picture tube, including a front plate and a back plate vacuum-tightly connected to the front plate defining an evacuated envelope, a control matrix of line conductors and column conductors respectively extended in planes parallel to the front plate dividing the evacuated envelope into a forward post acceleration space and a rear electron storage space having electrically conducting rear and side walls, the control matrix of conductors having crossings with electron passage openings formed in the vicinity thereof, at least one thermal cathode in the rear electron storage space having an emission surface, at least one grid-shaped pulling anode each being associated with a respective one of the at least one thermal cathode and each covering the emission surface of the respective at least one thermal cathode at a substantially constant spacing, at least one other anode disposed in the forward post acceleration space, a fluorescent-material layer disposed on the other anode being excitable by electrons and be

Abstract: Travelling wave tube, including a cylindrical vacuum shell having an outer diameter, a permanent magnet system surrounding the cylindrical vacuum shell including ring-shaped pole shoes having inner and outer diameters, magnet rings having inner and outer diameters and forming pairs with the pole shoes, each of the magnet rings being alternatingly disposed between two pole shoes in axial direction and being poled in opposite sense with respect to the next magnet ring, the inner diameters of the pole shoes being closely fitted around the vacuum shell and being smaller than the inner diameters of the magnet rings, the outer diameters of the magnet ring being larger than the outer diameters of the pole shoes, and a centering and retaining ring being adjacent to and in contact with each of the pole shoe and magnet ring pairs for centralizing the inner diameters of the pole shoes to the outer diameters of the magnet rings and for centralizing the inner diameters of the pole shoes and the outer diameters of the magn

Abstract: A supporting system for a delay line of a travelling wave tube wherein a number of clamping rings press dielectric support rods against the delay line. The clamping rings have a natural length along the delay line and a spacing distance such that (N.multidot.w.lambda.)/4=L.sub.1,2, where L.sub.1,2 designates the length of the line resonators, .lambda..sub.w the wave length on the delay line, and N a whole uneven number.

Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, a metal capillary cathode for electric discharge vessels with an emission substance carrier disk porous on its front face and comprised of metal melting at a high temperature is constructed to prevent lateral emission of electrons (interfering emission). To this end, the disclosure provides that the emission substance carrier disk has a nonporous outer casing surface with a higher electron work function than the outer, active surface of the emission substance carrier disk. Such a dispenser cathode is employed as a metal capillary cathode in traveling wave tubes.

Abstract: A traveling wave tube having a helical delay line has a plurality of dielectric holding rods for supporting the delay line relative to a vacuum envelope. The holding rods are firmly adhered to the delay line and the envelope by means of solid-state reactions.

Abstract: A multi-stage collector for a transit-time tube has a catcher plate with a hollow element extending inwardly therefrom and coaxially aligned with the electron beam of the tube.

Abstract: An orientation layer for liquid crystal displays and a method for its construction is provided. Ultrasonic waves are used to create a flat, stationary wave field which is used to direct the deposition of material in order form parallel ridges and associated grooves on an orientation layer in order to orient the liquid crystals. Where the ridges are composed of a conductive or dichroitic material and the grooves have an interval which approximately corresponds to one half of the wavelength of the illuminating light, the orientation layer both orients the liquid crystals and functions as a grid polarizer.