Operation of a high performance, harmonic-multiplying, inverted gyrotwystron

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 451-460

  Guo, Hezhaong ^a   Chen, Shiaw Huei ^a   Granatstein, Victor L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Combined traveling wave ballistic bunching; Extended interaction cavity; Frequency multiplying amplifier; Gainbandwidth product; Harmonic multiplying; Inverted gyrotwystron; Ka band, mode filter structure; Phase coherent; Phigtron; Significant advance

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS; GYROTRONS; MICROWAVE FILTERS; MICROWAVE GENERATION; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; WAVEGUIDES;

COMBINED TRAVELING WAVE BALLISTIC BUNCHING; EXTENDED INTERACTION CAVITY; FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING AMPLIFIERS; GYROTWYSTRONS;

MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0032096970     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.700777     Document Type: Article

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