Production of short microwave pulses with a peak power exceeding the driving electron beam power

Laser and Particle Beams

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 187-196

  Eltchaninov, Anton A ^a   Korovin, Sergei D ^a   Rostov, Vladislav V ^a   Pegel, Igor V ^a   Mesyats, Gennady A ^b   Rukin, Sergei N ^b   Shpak, Valery G ^b   Yalandin, Michael I ^b   Ginzburg, Naum S ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH CURRENT ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTROPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

BWO; Compact accelerator; High efficiency short pulse HPM source; Repetitive HPM source; Superradiance

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MODULATORS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CHERENKOV BACKWARD WAVE ELECTRON BEAM INTERACTION; HIGH CURRENT ELECTRON BEAMS; SHORT MICROWAVE PULSES; SUPERRADIANCE;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 0344897131     PISSN: 02630346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263034603212064     Document Type: Article

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