A millimeter-wave extended interaction device, including: a device body; resonant cavities; electron beam tunnels; an output waveguide; and a coupling hole. The device body includes a shell and a core, and an annular coupling channel is disposed between the shell and the core. The resonant cavities are a set of ring-shaped cavities with a radial height of 2 /5 , to 3/5 , parallel and equally spaced around an axis of the core. The electron beam tunnels are arranged at equal radian intervals and parallel to the axis of the core. The output waveguide is disposed in the middle of the shell and communicates with the annular coupling channel through a coupling hole. The core and the inner surface of the shell are sealed and fixed, and the output waveguide and the shell are sealed and fixed.

A millimeter-wave extended interaction device, including: a device body; resonant cavities; electron beam tunnels; an output waveguide; and a coupling hole. The device body includes a shell and a core, and an annular coupling channel is disposed between the shell and the core. The resonant cavities are a set of ring-shaped cavities with a radial height of 2 /5 , to 3/5 , parallel and equally spaced around an axis of the core. The electron beam tunnels are arranged at equal radian intervals and parallel to the axis of the core. The output waveguide is disposed in the middle of the shell and communicates with the annular coupling channel through a coupling hole. The core and the inner surface of the shell are sealed and fixed, and the output waveguide and the shell are sealed and fixed.

Provided are a magnetron whose resonance frequency is easily adjusted and a method of adjusting a resonance frequency of the magnetron. A magnetron includes an anode cylinder extending in a cylindrical shape along a central axis, a plurality of tabular vanes each having at least one end fixed to the anode cylinder and extending toward the central axis from an inner surface of the anode cylinder, and pressure-equalizing rings disposed coaxially with respect to the central axis of the anode cylinder, and alternately electrically connecting the tabular vanes to each other. The tabular vanes have protrusions facing the pressure-equalizing rings in an axial direction of the anode cylinder, and notches serving as base points for deforming the protrusions toward the pressure-equalizing rings sides or opposite sides thereto.

Embodiments described herein relate to a method and apparatus for training a model based reinforcement learning, MBRL, model for use in an environment. The method comprises obtaining a sequence of observations, o.sub.t, representative of the environment at a time t; estimating latent states s.sub.t at time t using a representation model, wherein the representation model estimates the latent states s.sub.t based on the previous latent states s.sub.t1, previous actions a.sub.t1 and the observations o.sub.t; generating modelled observations, o.sub.m,t, using an observation model, wherein the observation model generates the modelled observations based on the respective latent states s.sub.t, wherein the step of generating comprises determining means and standard deviations based on the latent states s.sub.t; and minimizing a first loss function to update network parameters of the representation model and the observation model, wherein the first loss function comprises a component comparing the modelled observations, o.sub.m,t to the respective observations o.sub.t.

A magnetron includes an anode cylinder extending in a cylindrical shape along a central axis and a plurality of plate-like vanes at least each one end of which is fixed to the anode cylinder, extending from an inner face of the anode cylinder toward the central axis, in which the anode cylinder includes refrigerant flow paths for directly applying a refrigerant to the plate-like vanes. The refrigerant flow paths 111 are openings formed so that end surfaces (joint end faces of the plate-like vanes) of the plate-like vanes are exposed, which allow the refrigerant to directly contact the plate-like vanes.

A magnetron includes an anode cylinder extending in a cylindrical shape along a central axis and a plurality of plate-like vanes at least each one end of which is fixed to the anode cylinder, extending from an inner face of the anode cylinder toward the central axis, in which the anode cylinder includes refrigerant flow paths for directly applying a refrigerant to the plate-like vanes. The refrigerant flow paths 111 are openings formed so that end surfaces (joint end faces of the plate-like vanes) of the plate-like vanes are exposed, which allow the refrigerant to directly contact the plate-like vanes.

The present invention provides a relativistic magnetron including an anode with an entrant channel, the channel having an input end, an output end and a dimensional discontinuity between the ends. The channel is connected to the magnetron and has an anode defining an interaction space located between the dimensional discontinuity and output end. Also provided is a cathode, located upstream, a spaced distance away from the interaction space towards the input end, the cathode is adapted to send an electron beam into the interaction space where the electron beam forms a virtual cathode in the interaction space.

The present invention provides a relativistic magnetron including an anode with an entrant channel, the channel having an input end, an output end and a dimensional discontinuity between the ends. The channel is connected to the magnetron and has an anode defining an interaction space located between the dimensional discontinuity and output end. Also provided is a cathode, located upstream, a spaced distance away from the interaction space towards the input end, the cathode is adapted to send an electron beam into the interaction space where the electron beam forms a virtual cathode in the interaction space.

A magnetron includes an anode cylindrical body, a plurality of vanes, a cathode filament, an input-side magnetic pole, an output-side magnetic pole, and a choke structure. The anode cylindrical body has a cylindrical shape with an input-side opening part and an output-side opening part. The plurality of vanes is radially disposed from a central axis of the anode cylindrical body to an inner wall surface of the anode cylindrical body. The cathode filament is disposed along the central axis of the anode cylindrical body. The input-side magnetic pole and the output-side magnetic pole are disposed on the input-side opening part and the output-side opening part, respectively. The choke structure is seamlessly formed and disposed so as to cover an opening rim of the input-side magnetic pole with respect to the central axis of the anode cylindrical body.

The present disclosure is directed to axial strapping of a multi-core (cascaded) magnetron. The multi-core (cascaded) magnetron includes a cathode and a plurality of cores (anodes) arranged in an axial direction along the cathode. Each of the cores may have a plurality of vanes arranged periodically in an azimuthal direction along a circumference of the cathode and forming by such a way a plurality of resonant cavities. The multi-core (cascaded) magnetron further includes groups of axial straps coupling each of the cores together in the axial direction along the cathode. For example, a first group of axial straps couple the first plurality of vanes of a first core to the second plurality of vanes of a second core. In an embodiment, the axial straps are configured to provide phase synchronization of electromagnetic oscillations induced inside each of the plurality of cores.