Mode competition in fourth-harmonic magnicon amplifiers

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 957-963

  Fliflet, Arne W ^a   Gold, Steven H ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CAVITY RESONATORS; COMPETITION; CYCLOTRONS; FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS; GYROTRONS; LASER MODES; ROTATION; SYNCHRONIZATION;

AZIMUTHAL INDEX MAGNICON MODES; CONVENTIONAL GYROTRON INTERACTION; ELECTRON BEAM SCANNING ANGLE SPREAD; FOURTH HARMONIC MAGNICON AMPLIFIERS; MODE COMPETITION; NONSYNCHRONOUS MODES; ROTATING MODE INTERACTION; TIME DEPENDENT MULTIMODE GYROTRON CODE;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 0030168280     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.533101     Document Type: Article

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