Abstract: A rotary waveguide coupling including coupling members which are coaxially rotatable with respect to one another and comprise waveguide sections produced by dividing an annular waveguide in a longitudinal sectional plane. Inputs and outputs of the waveguides to be rotated with respect to one another disposed in the side walls of the waveguide sections.

Abstract: A slow-wave circuit suitable for a high-frequency traveling-wave tube has an array of metallic ladder rungs extending transversely across an elongated envelope and not in contact with the envelope except at the ends of the rungs. The envelope has a cross-shaped section to provide a fundamental backward wave. The rungs preferably have aligned apertures to pass a beam of electrons in traveling-wave interaction with the circuit.By making the rungs transversely broader than a critical value, the lowest passband of the circuit has poles of impedance at both its ends, whereby more efficient interaction is obtained, along with greater stability.

Abstract: A multi-channel rotary joint, designed to couple a stationary and a rotary component of a radar system to each other, comprises a main channel centered on the axis of rotation and a plurality of axially spaced ancillary channels coaxially surrounding the main channel. Each ancillary channel is formed by two capacitively coupled coplanar rings respectively carried on a stationary and on a rotatable dielectric sleeve centered on the axis, each ring comprising two concentric annular conductor strips on the inner and the outer sleeve surface. The inner and outer conductor strips of each ring are interrupted by small equispaced gaps which are relatively offset to form overlapping segments of two concentric transmission lines which are electrically continuous except at one point at which the line is coupled to a respective balun also formed by arcuate conductor strips.