Gyro-TWT with a helical operating waveguide: New possibilities to enhance efficiency and frequency bandwidth

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 508-518

  Denisov, Gregory G ^a   Bratman, Vladimir L ^b   Phelps, Alan D R ^a   Samsonov, Sergei V ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Broadband; Electron cyclotron amplifier; Free electron amplifier; Gyro amplifier tube; Gyro twt; Gyrotron amplifier; Gyrotron traveling wave tube; Helical waveguide; High power microwave twt; Highefficiency gyrodevice; Microwave amplifier tube

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ELECTRON BEAMS; GYROTRONS; HELICAL WAVEGUIDES;

ELECTRON CYCLOTRON AMPLIFIERS; FREE ELECTRON AMPLIFIERS; GYRO AMPLIFIER TUBES; GYROTRON AMPLIFIERS; GYROTRON TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0032099992     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.700785     Document Type: Article

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