Development and demonstration of high-average power W-band gyro-amplifiers for radar applications

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 30, Issue 3 I, 2002, Pages 865-875

  Blank, Monica ^a   Felch, K ^a   James, B G ^a   Borchard, P ^a   Cahalan, P ^a   Chu, T S ^a   Jory, H ^a   Danly, Bruce G ^b   Levush, Baruch ^b   Calame, J P ^b   Nguyen, Khanh T ^b,c   Pershing, Dean E ^b,d  

^a Microwave Power Products Division   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c KN Research   (United States)

^d MISSION RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplifier; Gyro amplifier; Gyrotron; Millimeter wave; W band

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; KLYSTRONS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; RADAR SYSTEMS; TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

GYRO-AMPLIFIERS;

GYROTRONS;

EID: 0036627526     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2002.801658     Document Type: Article

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