Coaxial cavity gyrotron - Recent experimental results

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 30, Issue 3 I, 2002, Pages 819-827

  Piosczyk, Bernhard ^a   Arnold, Andreas ^b   Dammertz, Günter ^a   Dumbrajs, Olgierd ^c   Kuntze, Michael ^a   Thumm, Manfred K ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Coaxial cavity; Frequency tuning; Gyrotron; Microwave stray radiation; Parasitic frequency oscillations

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON GUNS; MICROWAVES; PLASMA OSCILLATIONS; TUNING;

COAXIAL CAVITIES;

GYROTRONS;

EID: 0036627433     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2002.801557     Document Type: Article

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