Improvement of the output power in TWTs by harmonic injection

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 783-789

  Plouin, Juliette ^a   Rax, Jean Marcel ^a   Andre, Frederic ^b   Thaler, Yves ^b  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^b THALES   (France)

Author keywords

Harmonic injection; Inertial saturation; Traveling wave tube (TWT)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRON BEAMS; HARMONIC GENERATION; INTERMODULATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; OPTIMIZATION;

HARMONIC INJECTION; INERTIAL SATURATION; LAGRANGIAN MODEL;

TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

EID: 18844445676     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2005.845841     Document Type: Article

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