A rectangular magnetron tube core including: an anode component having two openings respectively formed in two end portions thereof; a cathode component disposed on the center axis of an anode barrel; an input component and an output component respectively disposed on the two openings formed outside the two end portions of the anode barrel. The anode component includes: the anode barrel, a plurality of anode vanes, two strapping rings, an A-side pole shoe and a K-side pole shoe. The anode vanes are uniformly disposed on the inner side wall of the anode barrel. The tips of the anode vanes leave a tubular space at the center axis of the anode barrel, and the two strapping rings are both ring-structure erected on both sides of the anode vanes. The structure of the A-side pole shoe is completely symmetrical with that of the K-side pole shoe.

According to one embodiment, a klystron includes an electron gun unit, a plurality of resonant cavities, a collector, and a plurality of drift tubes. The resonant cavities include an input cavity, a plurality of intermediate cavities, and an output cavity, positioned sequentially along the traveling direction of electrons from the electron gun unit. The intermediate cavities include a plurality of second harmonic cavities. The collector captures the electrons that have passed through the resonant cavities. The drift tubes are provided between the electron gun unit and the input cavity, between the resonant cavities, and between the output cavity and the collector.

A left-handed material extended interaction klystron includes: an input cavity, a middle cavity, an output cavity, first-section drift tube and a second-section drift tube; wherein the input cavity, the middle cavity and the output cavity are all cylindrical resonant cavities having arrays of Complementary electric Split-Ring Resonator (CeSRR) unit cells provided therein; wherein a first side of the input cavity is an input channel of an electron beam, a second side connects the middle cavity via the first-section drift tube; a first T-shaped coaxial input structure is provided in the input cavity; a first side of the output cavity is for connecting a collector, a second side of the output cavity connects the middle cavity via the second-section drift tube, a second T-shaped coaxial output structure is provided in the output cavity.

A left-handed material extended interaction klystron includes: an input cavity, a middle cavity, an output cavity, first-section drift tube and a second-section drift tube; wherein the input cavity, the middle cavity and the output cavity are all cylindrical resonant cavities having arrays of Complementary electric Split-Ring Resonator (CeSRR) unit cells provided therein; wherein a first side of the input cavity is an input channel of an electron beam, a second side connects the middle cavity via the first-section drift tube; a first T-shaped coaxial input structure is provided in the input cavity; a first side of the output cavity is for connecting a collector, a second side of the output cavity connects the middle cavity via the second-section drift tube, a second T-shaped coaxial output structure is provided in the output cavity.

A left-handed material extended interaction klystron includes: an input cavity, a middle cavity, an output cavity, first-section drift tube and a second-section drift tube; wherein the input cavity, the middle cavity and the output cavity are all cylindrical resonant cavities having arrays of Complementary electric Split-Ring Resonator (CeSRR) unit cells provided therein; wherein a first side of the input cavity is an input channel of an electron beam, a second side connects the middle cavity via the first-section drift tube; a first T-shaped coaxial input structure is provided in the input cavity; a first side of the output cavity is for connecting a collector, a second side of the output cavity connects the middle cavity via the second-section drift tube, a second T-shaped coaxial output structure is provided in the output cavity.

A left-handed material extended interaction klystron includes: an input cavity, a middle cavity, an output cavity, first-section drift tube and a second-section drift tube; wherein the input cavity, the middle cavity and the output cavity are all cylindrical resonant cavities having arrays of Complementary electric Split-Ring Resonator (CeSRR) unit cells provided therein; wherein a first side of the input cavity is an input channel of an electron beam, a second side connects the middle cavity via the first-section drift tube; a first T-shaped coaxial input structure is provided in the input cavity; a first side of the output cavity is for connecting a collector, a second side of the output cavity connects the middle cavity via the second-section drift tube, a second T-shaped coaxial output structure is provided in the output cavity.

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.

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.