Recent progress in the hard-tube MILO experiment

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3158, Issue , 1997, Pages 28-39

  Haworth, Michael D ^a   Allen, Ken E ^b   Baca, G ^a   Benford, James N ^c   Englert, Thad J ^d   Hackett, Kirk E ^a   Hendricks, Kyle J ^a   Henley, Dean M ^b   Lemke, Raymond W ^e   Price, David ^f   Ralph, Dale R ^b   Sena, Miguel D ^b   Shiffler, Donald A ^a   Spencer, Thomas A ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Albuquerque Div   (United States)

^c Micrcwave Sciences Inc   (United States)

^d NUMEREX   (United States)

^e SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^f PRIMEX Physics International   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross field device; High power microwave tube; Intense rf source; Magnetically insulated line oscillator; MILO

Indexed keywords

DC GENERATORS; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON TUBES; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS; MICROWAVE POWER TRANSMISSION; MICROWAVES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); TUBES (COMPONENTS);

CROSS-FIELD DEVICE; HIGH POWER MICROWAVE TUBE; INTENSE RF SOURCE; MAGNETICALLY INSULATED LINE OSCILLATOR; MILO;

MICROWAVE TUBES;

EID: 0001858290     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.279433     Document Type: Conference Paper

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