Design of a W-band TE01 mode gyrotron traveling-wave amplifier with high power and broad-band capabilities

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 30, Issue 3 I, 2002, Pages 894-902

  McDermott, David B ^a   Song, Heather H ^a   Hirata, Yosuke ^a,d   Lin, Anthony T ^b   Barnett, L R ^c   Chang, T H ^c   Hsu, Hsin Lu ^a   Marandos, Peter S ^a   Lee, J S ^a   Chu, Kwo Ray ^c   Luhmann Jr , N C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Absolute instability; Coaxial input coupler; Distributed loss; Gyro backward wave oscillator (BWO); Gyro traveling wave tube (TWT) amplifier; Gyrotron traveling wave amplifier; Magnetron injection gun (MIG)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON GUNS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); POWER AMPLIFIERS; TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

TRAVELING-WAVE AMPLIFIERS;

GYROTRONS;

EID: 0036627343     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2002.801559     Document Type: Article

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