MW gyrotron development for fusion plasma applications

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

Volumn 45, Issue 12 A, 2003, Pages

  Thumm, Manfred ^a,b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUSION REACTIONS; MAGNETOPLASMA; MILLIMETER WAVES; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PLASMA HEATING; PLASMA STABILITY; TOKAMAK DEVICES;

COAXIAL CAVITY GYROTRONS; ELECTRON CYCLOTRON CURRENT DRIVE; ELECTRON CYCLOTRON RESONANCE HEATING; HIGH POWER GYROTRON OSCILLATORS; INTERNATIONAL TOKAMAK EXPERIMENT REACTOR; SINGLE STAGE DEPRESSED COLLECTOR; STEP-WISE FREQUENCY TUNABLE GYROTRONS; THERMONUCLEAR FUSION;

GYROTRONS;

EID: 0345765498     PISSN: 07413335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0741-3335/45/12A/011     Document Type: Article

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