"Power Holes" and Nonlinear Forward and Backward Wave Gain Competition in Helix Traveling-Wave Tubes

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2540-2547

  Chernin, David ^a   Antonsen Jr , Thomas M ^b   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 oscillators (BWO); Microwave amplifiers; Simulation; Stability; Traveling wave tube (TWT)

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRON BEAMS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); STABILITY;

BACKWARD WAVE OSCILLATORS (BWO); POWER HOLES; SIGNAL FREQUENCIES;

TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

EID: 0346076860     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2003.819252     Document Type: Review

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