Microwave pulse compression using a helically corrugated waveguide

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 33, Issue 2 II, 2005, Pages 661-667

  Burt, Graeme ^a   Samsonov, Sergey V ^b   Phelps, Alan D R ^c   Bratman, Vladimir L ^b   Ronald, Kevin ^c   Denisov, Gregory G ^b   He, Wenlong ^c   Young, Alan R ^c   Cross, Adrian W ^c   Konoplev, Ivan V ^c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic coupling; Pulse compression methods

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER OPTICS; HELICAL WAVEGUIDES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC COUPLING; MICROWAVE PULSE; PULSE COMPRESSION METHODS;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 21044455851     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2005.844522     Document Type: Article

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