Experimental Studies of Stability and Amplification in a Two-Cavity Second Harmonic Gyroklystron

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 825-833

  Matthews, H W ^a   Lawson, I ^a   Calame, J P ^a   Flaherty, M K E ^a   Hogan, B ^a   Latham, P E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CAVITY RESONATORS; CIRCUIT OSCILLATIONS; CYCLOTRONS; FREQUENCY STABILITY; GYROTRONS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

GYROKLYSTRONS;

MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0028531310     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: 19399375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.338298     Document Type: Article

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