Phase-Locking of a Second-Harmonic Gyrotron Oscillator Using a Quasi-Optical Circulator to Separate Injection and Output Signals

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 822-832

  Guo, Hezhong ^a   Rodgers, John ^a   Granatstein, Victor L ^a   Latham, Peter E ^a   Nusinovich, Gregory S ^a   Naiman, Matthew L ^a   Chen, Shiaw Huei ^a   Hoppe, Daniel J ^b   Perez, Raul M ^b   Conroy, Bruce L ^b   Bhanji, Alaudin M ^b   Tate, Jeffrey P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c FLORIDA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CAVITY RESONATORS; ELECTRON CYCLOTRON RESONANCE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

OUTPUT SIGNAL; QUASI OPTICAL CIRCULATORS; SIGNAL INJECTION; VOLTAGE PULSE;

GYROTRONS;

EID: 0029386564     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: 19399375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.473201     Document Type: Article

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