High-Power X-Band Amplification from an Overmoded Three-Cavity Gyroklystron with a Tunable Penultimate Cavity

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 205-215

  Tantawi, Sami G ^a   Main, William T ^a   Latham, Peter E ^a   Nusinovich, Gregory S ^a   Lawson, Wesley G ^a   Striffler, Charles D ^a   Granatstein, Victor L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS; GYROTRONS; RESONATORS, CAVITY;

GYROKLYSTRONS; PENULTIMATE CAVITITES; X BAND;

ELECTRON TUBES, KLYSTRON;

EID: 0026881845     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: 19399375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.142821     Document Type: Article

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