Gyrotron Oscillators

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 1988, Pages 644-656

  Flyacin, Valery A ^a   Nusinovich, Gregory S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TUBES -- CYCLOTRON RESONANCE; ELECTRONS -- ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MASERS -- MILLIMETER WAVES;

CYCLOTRON RESONANCE MASER (CRM); GYROTRON OSCILLATORS; POWER LEVEL ENHANCEMENT;

GYROTRONS;

EID: 0024018112     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.4454     Document Type: Article

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