Beam line design, beam alignment procedure, and initial results for the W-band gain experiment at Los Alamos

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 34, Issue 5 IV, 2006, Pages 2393-2403

  Carlsten, Bruce E ^a   Earley, Lawrence M ^a   Haynes, W Brian ^a   Krawczyk, Frank L ^a   Romero, Frank P ^a   Russell, Steven J ^a   Smirnova, Evgenya I ^a   Wang, Zhi Fu ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron beams; Electron tubes; Microwave amplifiers; Millimeter wave power amplifiers; Travelling wave tubes (TWTs)

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CYCLOTRONS; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SOLENOIDS; TRAVELING WAVE TUBES; WAVEGUIDES;

BEAM DRILL HOLES; MILLIMETER-WAVE POWER AMPLIFIERS; THIN METALLIC FOILS;

ELECTRON BEAMS;

EID: 33750406702     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2006.883386     Document Type: Article

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