Experiments on peer-to-peer locking of magnetrons

Experiments on peer-to-peer locking of 2 kW magnetrons are performed. These experiments verify the recently developed theory oil the condition under which the two nonlinear oscillators may be locked to a common frequency. Dependent oil the coupling, the frequency of oscillation when locking Occurs does not necessarily lie between the free running frequencies of the two isolated, stand-alone magnetrons. Likewise, when the locking condition is violated, the beat frequency is not necessarily equal to the difference between these free running frequencies. (C) 2009 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10 1063/1.3262970]