Electric lamp and discharge devices: systems – Cathode ray tube circuits – Combined cathode ray tube and circuit element structure
Patent
1991-10-09
1994-05-17
Lee, Benny T.
Electric lamp and discharge devices: systems
Cathode ray tube circuits
Combined cathode ray tube and circuit element structure
315 533, 315149, 313293, 313524, H01J 2306
Patent
active
053131380
ABSTRACT:
An electron gun is modulated by an optoelectronic switching device. This switching device comprises a modulated light source and at least one GaAs or Si solid-state optoelectronic switch, this switch being non-conductive when not illuminated and conductive when illuminated by the modulated light source; the device also includes components to transmit the light from the source to the switch(es). In one embodiment, the modulated light source is a laser and in a second embodiment the source is a continuous source externally modulated by a mechanical or electrooptical device. The optoelectronic switching device is connected between a high-voltage source and the cathode of an electron gun, thus modulating the cathode.
The invention is particularly applicable to microwave electron tubes.
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Lee Benny T.
Plottel Roland
Thomson Tubes Electroniques
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