phasitron

phasitron

[′fāz·ə‚trän] (electronics) An electron tube used to frequency-modulate a radio-frequency carrier; internal electrodes are designed to produce a rotating disk-shaped corrugated sheet of electrons; audio input is applied to a coil surrounding the glass envelope of the tube, to produce a varying axial magnetic field that gives the desired phase or frequency modulation of the rf carrier input to the tube.