Overview of research on the gyrotron traveling-wave amplifier

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 30, Issue 3 I, 2002, Pages 903-908

  Chu, Kwo Ray ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Amplifier; Electron cyclotron maser; Gyrotron; Millimeter wave; Traveling wave

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); BANDWIDTH; MASERS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

ELECTRON CYCLOTRON MASERS;

GYROTRONS;

EID: 0036627435     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2002.801560     Document Type: Review

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