Increasing the RF energy per pulse of an RKO

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 320-325

  Hendricks, K J ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Gigawatt; Klystron; Microwave; RF; RKO

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS; KLYSTRONS;

FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM (FWHM); PULSE LENGTHENING; RELATIVISTIC KLYSTRON OSCILLATORS (RKO);

MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0032095813     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.700760     Document Type: Article

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