Experimental studies of a four-cavity, 35 GHz gyroklystron amplifier

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 672-680

  Garven, M ^a,b   Calame, J P ^c   Nguyen, Khanh T ^d   Danly, Bruce G ^c   Levush, Baruch ^c   Wood, F N ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b OMEGA P INC   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d KN Research   (United States)

^e DynCorp Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYCLOTRON RESONANCE; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; ELECTRON BEAMS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; MAGNETIC FIELDS;

BEAM VELOCITY RATIO; CYLINDRICAL MODE; GYROKLYSTRON AMPLIFIER; MILLIMETER WAVE AMPLIFIER;

MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0034197598     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.887699     Document Type: Article

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