Stability of traveling-wave amplifiers with reflections

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 30, Issue 3 I, 2002, Pages 1089-1107

  Antonsen Jr , Thomas M ^a,b   Safier, Pedro ^a   Chernin, David P ^a   Levush, Baruch ^c  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backward wave oscillator (BWO); Stability; Traveling wave tube (TWT)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

BACKWARD WAVE OSCILLATORS (BWO);

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 0036627530     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2002.801563     Document Type: Article

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