100-150 MW designs of two- and three-cavity gyroklystron amplifiers operating at the fundamental and second harmonics in x- and ku-bands

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 671-677

  Saraph, Girish P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; COLLIDING BEAM ACCELERATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GYROTRONS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; KLYSTRONS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; RESONANCE; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

GYROKLYSTRON AMPLIFIERS; LINEAR COLLIDER; PENULTIMATE CAVITY;

MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0030172423     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.532950     Document Type: Article

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