S-band vircator with electron beam premodulation based on compact pulse driver with inductive energy storage

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 30, Issue 3 I, 2002, Pages 1179-1185

  Kitsanov, Sergei A ^a   Klimov, Alexei I ^a   Korovin, Sergei D ^a   Kovalchuk, Boris M ^a   Kurkan, Ivan K ^a   Loginov, Sergey V ^a   Pegel, Igor V ^a   Polevin, Sergei D ^a   Volkov, Sergei N ^a   Zherlitsyn, Andrey A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH CURRENT ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Fuse opening switch; High power microwaves (HPM); Particle in cell (PIC) simulations; Premodulation; Pulse shortening; Vircator

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENERGY STORAGE; FREQUENCIES; MICROWAVES;

PULSE SHORTENING;

ELECTRON BEAMS;

EID: 0036627324     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2002.801642     Document Type: Article

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