Demonstration of an S-band, 600-kW fundamental-mode multiple-beam klystron

IEEE Electron Device Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 590-592

  Abe, David K ^a   Pershing, Dean E ^b   Nguyen, Khanh T ^c   Wood, Franklin N ^b   Myers, Robert E ^b   Eisen, Edward L ^d   Cusick, Michael ^d   Levush, Baruch ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Beam Wave Research Inc   (United States)

^d CPI   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CATHODES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MAGNETIC FIELDS;

MULTIBEAM KLYSTRON (MBK); MULTIPLE BEAM AMPLIFIER (MBA);

KLYSTRONS;

EID: 23844553743     PISSN: 07413106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LED.2005.852540     Document Type: Article

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