Theory of a Wide-Band Distributed Gyrotron Traveling-Wave Amplifier

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 1981, Pages 866-871

  Chu, Kwo Ray ^a   Granatstein, Victor L ^a   Lau, Y Y ^b   Barnett, Larry R ^c  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c B K Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS;

MICROWAVE RADIATION;

EID: 0019392858     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-ED.1981.20444     Document Type: Article

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