The Effect of 2-Directional Magnetic Biasing Used for Tuning of a Ferrite-Loaded Re-entrant Cavity (original) (raw)
2000, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Cavities that are partially filled with ferrite material provide a tunable resonance frequency by making use of the changing µ-characteristics of ferrites when exposed to an external magnetic bias field. The concept of using either parallel or perpendicular magnetic biasing to reach a certain resonance frequency of a cavity has been known for many years. However, a cavity based on superposition of perpendicular and parallel magnetic fields to obtain improved ferrite characteristics was suggested in W. R. Smythe "Reducing ferrite tuner power loss by bias field rotation," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 273-275, 1983, but to our knowledge was neither tested nor built. Such a 2-directional biasing is expected to provide a reduction in RF losses for an identical tuning range as compared with the classical 1directional magnetic bias. We have successfully tested this theory with a measurement setup consisting of a ferrite-filled cavity, exposed to external biases that allow the clear separation of the two orientations of superposed magnetic bias fields. The outcome is an enlargement of tuning range with high cavity Ԛ and the possibility of fast tuning. In this paper, we describe the measurement setup and present the tuning ranges that we attained by applying different bias schemes.
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