Gain and Bandwidth of the Gyro-TWT and CARM Amplifiers

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 90-104

  Chu, K R ^a   Lin, Anthony T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS, BROADBAND; CONTROL, ELECTRIC VARIABLES - GAIN; ELECTRON TUBES, TRAVELING WAVE - MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MASERS - OSCILLATIONS; PARTICLE BEAMS;

CYCLOTRON AUTO-RESONANCE; DISPERSION RELATION; GYRO-TWT; SINGLE-PARTICLE INTERACTION;

GYROTRONS;

EID: 0023994776     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: 19399375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.3798     Document Type: Article

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