An Experimental Wide-Band Gyrotron Traveling-Wave Amplifier

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 1981, Pages 872-875

  Chu, K R ^c   Granatstein, V L ^c  

^a B K Systems Inc   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE RADIATION;

AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0019392857     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-ED.1981.20445     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. L. R. Barnett, K. R. Chu, J. Mark Baird, V. L. Granatstein, and A. T. Drobot, “Gain, saturation, and bandwidth measurements of the NRL gyrotron travelling wave amplifier,” IEEE Int. Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) Tech. Dig., pp. 164-167, 1979.
2. L. R. Barnett, J. Mark Baird, Y. Y. Lau, K. R. Chu, and V. L. Granatstein, “A high gain single stage gyrotron traveling-wave amplifier,” IEEE Int. Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) Tech. Dig., pp. 314-317, 1980.
3. J. L. Seftor, V. L. Granatstein, K. R. Chu, P. Sprangle, and M. Read, “The electron cyclotron maser as a high-power-traveling-wave wave amplifier of millimeter waves,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron., vol. QE-15, pp. 848–853, Sept. 1979.
4. P. Sprangle and A. T. Drobot, “The linear and self-consistent nonlinear theory of the electron cyclotron maser instability,” IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech., vol. MTT-25, pp. 528-544, 1977. 544, 1977.
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6. J. L. Seftor, A. T. Drobot, and K. R. Chu, “An investigation of a magnetron injection gun suitable for use in cyclotron resonance masers,” IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. ED-26, pp. 1609–1616, 1616, Oct. 1979.
7. Y. Y. Lau, K. R. Chu, L. Barnett, and V. L. Granatstein, “Gyrotron tron travelling wave amplifier: II. Effects of velocity spread and wall resistivity,” Int. J. Infrared Millimeter Waves, 1981, to be published; also, Naval Research Lab., Washington, DC, Memo Rep. 4304, 1980.
8. “Gyrotron travelling wave amplifier: I. Analysis of oscillations,” Int. J. Infrared Millimeter Waves, 1981, to be published; also, Naval Research Lab., Washington, DC, Memo Rep. 4303, 1980.
9. V. L. Bratman, M. A. Moiseev, M. I. Petelin, and R. E. Erm, “Theory of gyrotrons with a nonfixed structure of the high-frequency field,” Izv. Vyssh. Ucheb. Zaved., Radiofiz., vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 622–630, Apr. 1973.
10. M. A. Moiseev, “Maximum amplification band of a CRM twistron,” tron,” Izv. Vyssh. Ucheb. Zaved., Radiofiz., vol. 20, no. 8, pp. 1218–1223, Aug. 1977.
11. Y. Y. Lau and K. R. Chu, “Gyrotron travelling-wave amplifier: III. A proposed wide band fast wave amplifier,” Int. J. Infrared Millimeter Waves, 1981, to be published; also, Naval Research Lab., Washington, DC, Memo Rep. 4346, 1980.
12. Y. Y. Lau, K. R. Chu, V. L. Granatstein, and L. R. Barnett, “Wide-band fast wave gyrotron travelling-wave amplifier,” Patent 65 249, Sept. 25, 1980.
13. K. R. Chu, Y. Y. Lau, L. R. Barnett, and V. L. Granatstein, “A distributed gyrotron travelling-wave amplifier,” this issue, pp. 866–871.
14. J. M. Baird, private communication, Feb. 1981.