Computationally Generated Velocity Taper for Efficiency Enhancement in a Coupled-Cavity Traveling-Wave Tube

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1989, Pages 811-816

  Wilson, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS;

COUPLED CAVITY TWT; ELECTRON-BUNCH VELOCITY; LARGE SIGNAL COMPUTER MODEL; PHASE ADJUSTED TAPERS; VELOCITY TAPERS;

ELECTRON TUBES, TRAVELING WAVE;

EID: 0024646209     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.22491     Document Type: Article

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