High-power millimetre-wave mode converters in overmoded circular waveguides using periodic wall perturbations

International Journal of Electronics

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 1984, Pages 1225-1246

  Thumm, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES - POLARIZATION; GYROTRONS; PLASMAS - APPLICATIONS;

MILLIMETERE-WAVE MODE CONVERTERS; OVERMODED CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES; PERIODIC WALL PERTURBATIONS;

WAVEGUIDES, CIRCULAR;

EID: 0021662218     PISSN: 00207217     EISSN: 13623060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207218408938998     Document Type: Article

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