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Tim Williams
- Jan 1, 1970
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Has anyone ever seen analysis, formulas, data, etc. concerning (if it's
even a word) helicotoroidal resonators?
Banal example: any toroidal inductor, single layer winding. Example:
chokes with single layer windings, most CTs.
The simplest case ought to be the thin toroid (the physicist's old
standby): if the properties of a thin (or infinite) solenoid (helix) are
known, it should be easy enough to apply periodic boundary conditions,
making it into a loop (a thin toroid). So instead of infinite propagating
modes, standing waves occur.
The frequencies of those standing waves will depend on the dispersion of
the helix, which I understand is not the same as an ideal transmission
line, so they won't be a harmonic series. I would SWAG the resonances
occur at Bessel function zeroes, or something like that. But that doesn't
help much. More importantly, they will depend on geometry and stuff.
I would of course be most interested in what an actual toroidal winding
(of finite size and thickness, wire and turns, all around a permeable core
of known properties) does, but if I can hand-wave some ideas it would be
great.
Tim
even a word) helicotoroidal resonators?
Banal example: any toroidal inductor, single layer winding. Example:
chokes with single layer windings, most CTs.
The simplest case ought to be the thin toroid (the physicist's old
standby): if the properties of a thin (or infinite) solenoid (helix) are
known, it should be easy enough to apply periodic boundary conditions,
making it into a loop (a thin toroid). So instead of infinite propagating
modes, standing waves occur.
The frequencies of those standing waves will depend on the dispersion of
the helix, which I understand is not the same as an ideal transmission
line, so they won't be a harmonic series. I would SWAG the resonances
occur at Bessel function zeroes, or something like that. But that doesn't
help much. More importantly, they will depend on geometry and stuff.
I would of course be most interested in what an actual toroidal winding
(of finite size and thickness, wire and turns, all around a permeable core
of known properties) does, but if I can hand-wave some ideas it would be
great.
Tim