Abstract
This paper reports a detailed experimental investigation of the traveling-wave phototube (TWP) as a broad-band demodulator of microwave-modulated light. As Part II of a theoretical and experimental analysis of the interaction between a density-modulated photoelectron beam and a slow-wave circuit, it examines the output power, bandwidth and voltage modewidth of the traveling-wave phototube as a function of photocurrent, beam voltage and interaction length. Three types of experiments are described: 1) direct demodulation of light, amplitude-modulated at 3 Gc by a cavity-type modulator, 2) measurement of the microwave shot noise from photoelectron beams initiated by light from both coherent and incoherent sources and 3) comparison of the previous two measurements with the microwave shot noise of a thermionic electron beam. Comparisons of the results of these experiments with the predictions of the theory of Part I are drawn, showing good agreement. In particular, a number of new effects which are predicted by the detailed analysis of Part I, and which had not been previously observed or predicted are reported.
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