Twin traveling-wave tube amplifiers driven by a relativistic backward-wave oscillator

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 884-894

  Butler, Jennifer M ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BANDWIDTH; ELECTRON BEAMS; FREQUENCY STABILITY; MAGNETRONS; MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS; SIGNAL GENERATORS; TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

BACKWARD WAVE OSCILLATORS; FULL WIDTH HALF MAXIMUM; PROOF OF PRINCIPLE; TRAVELING WAVE TUBE AMPLIFIERS;

MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0030168959     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.533092     Document Type: Article

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