Simulation of Electrostatic Noise Amplification in Gyrotrons

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1986, Pages 690-695

  Chu, Kwo Ray ^a   Lyu, Ling Hsiao ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GYROTRONS - THEORY;

ELECTRON ENERGY DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROSTATIC CYCLOTRON INSTABILITY (ECI); ELECTROSTATIC NOISE AMPLIFICATION; ELECTROSTATIC PERTURBATION;

NOISE GENERATORS;

EID: 0022736481     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.1986.1133418     Document Type: Article

References (8)

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4. See, for example, J. M. Dawson and A. T. Lin, “Particle simulation,” in Handbook of Plasma Physics, vol. 2, A. A. Galeev and R. N. Sudan, Eds. New York: Elsevier, 1984, ch. 7.1.
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8. There are other beam modes, such as the ordinary and extraordinary modes, that do not oscillate only at harmonics of the electron cyclotron frequency.