Multimegawatt relativistic harmonic gyrotron traveling-wave tube amplifier experiments

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 687-699

  Menninger, William L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; ELECTRON BEAMS; GYROTRONS; HARMONIC GENERATION; MAGNETS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHASE MEASUREMENT; RESONANCE; TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

BIFILAR HELICAL WIGGLER MAGNET; MULTIMEGAWATT AMPLIFIER; OPERATION FREQUENCY; PHASE STABILITY; THIRD HARMONIC INTERACTION; WIGGLER RESONANCE;

MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0030164257     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.533070     Document Type: Article

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