Performance of a Wideband, Three-Stage, Mixed Geometry Gyrotwystron Amplifier

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 1995, Pages 1681-1685

  Malouf, Perry M ^a   Granatstein, Victor L ^b   Park, S Y ^b   Park, Gun Sik ^b   Armstrong, Carter M ^c  

^a APPLix Software Company ^*  (United States)

^b OMEGA P INC   (United States)

^c NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CAVITY RESONATORS; CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAIN MEASUREMENT; GYROTRONS; KLYSTRONS; PERFORMANCE; TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

CUT-OFF DRIFT REGIONS; GAIN-BANDWIDTH PRODUCT; GYRO-TRAVELING-WAVE TUBE; GYROKLYSTRON AMPLIFIER; GYROTWYSTRON AMPLIFIER; MIXED GEOMETRY;

MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0029378955     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.405284     Document Type: Article

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