Traveling-Wave tube devices with nonlinear dielectric elements

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 774-786

  Antonsen Jr , Thomas M ^a   Levush, Baruch ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic tuning; Intermodulation distortion; Nonlinear dielectric; Traveling wave amplifier

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC AMPLIFIERS; ELECTRIC DISTORTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; INTERMODULATION; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; NONLINEAR NETWORK ANALYSIS; PERMITTIVITY; TUNING; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

NEGATIVE SECOND ORDER SUSCEPTIBILITIES;

TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

EID: 0032099487     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.700830     Document Type: Article

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