High-power gyrotron development at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe for fusion applications

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 34, Issue 2 I, 2006, Pages 173-186

  Dammertz, Günter ^a   Alberti, Stefano ^b   Arnold, Andreas ^a,c   Bariou, David ^d   Brand, Peter ^e   Braune, Harald ^f   Erckmann, Volker ^f   Dumbrajs, Olgierd ^g   Gantenbein, Gerd ^e   Giguet, Eric ^d   Heidinger, Roland ^a   Hogge, Jean Philipp ^b   Illy, Stefan ^a   Jin, Jinbo ^a   Kasparek, Walter ^e   Koppenburg, Kai ^a   Laqua, Heinrich Peter ^f   Legrand, Francois ^d   Leonhardt, Wolfgang ^a   Liévin, Christophe ^d   Michel, Georg ^f   Neffe, Günter ^a   Piosczyk, Bernhard ^a   Prinz, Oliver ^a   Rzesnicki, Thomasz ^a   Schmid, Martin ^a   Thumm, Manfred ^a,c   Tran, Minh Quang ^b   Yang, X ^a   Yovchev, I ^b   more..

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^d THALES   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PLASMAPHYSIK   (Germany)

^g AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Coaxial gyrotron; Diamond window; Frequency tuning; Gyrotron; High power microwaves; Quasi optical mode converter; Single stage depressed collector; Step tunability; Stray radiation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRON BEAMS; FUSION REACTIONS; GYROTRONS; MICROWAVES;

COAXIAL GYROTRON; FUSION PLASMA DEVICE; HIGH-POWER GYROTRON; QUASI-OPTICAL MODE CONVERTER; SINGLE-STAGE DEPRESSED COLLECTOR; STEP TUNABILITY; STRAY RADIATION;

PLASMA DEVICES;

EID: 33646036106     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2006.872176     Document Type: Article

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