Eighteen-beam gun design for high power, high repetition rate, broadband multiple-beam klystrons

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 33, Issue 2 II, 2005, Pages 685-695

  Nguyen, Khanh T ^a   Pershing, Dean E ^b   Abe, David K ^c   Miram, George ^d   Levush, Baruch ^c  

^a Beam Wave Research Inc   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d CALABAZAS CREEK RESEARCH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron gun; Multibeam; Multiple beam amplifier (MBA); Multiple beam klystron (MBK)

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRON BEAMS; KLYSTRONS; MAGNETIC CIRCUITS; OPTIMIZATION;

EIGHTEEN-BEAM GUN DESIGN; MULTIPLE BEAM AMPLIFIER; MULTIPLE BEAM KLYSTRON;

ELECTRON GUNS;

EID: 18844391252     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2005.844523     Document Type: Article

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