A gyrotron-traveling-wave tube amplifier experiment with a ceramic loaded interaction region

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 30, Issue 3 I, 2002, Pages 885-893

  Garven, Morag ^a,b   Calame, J P ^a   Danly, Bruce G ^a   Nguyen, Khanh T ^a,c   Levush, Baruch ^a   Wood, F N ^a,d   Pershing, Dean E ^a,e  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b OMEGA P INC   (United States)

^c KN Research   (United States)

^d DynCorp   (United States)

^e MISSION RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Ceramic loading; Electron beam; Gyro traveling wave tube (gyro TWT); Millimeter wave amplifier

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CYCLOTRONS; ELECTRON BEAMS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; PLASMA OSCILLATIONS; TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

CERAMIC LOADING;

GYROTRONS;

EID: 0036627532     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2002.801650     Document Type: Article

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