Power flexible Ka-band traveling wave tube amplifiers of up to 250-W RF for space communications

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 181-187

  Menninger, William L ^a   Robbins, Neal R ^a   Dibb, Daniel R ^a   Lewis, David E ^a  

^a TITAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Millimeter wave power amplifiers; Satellite communication onboard systems; Traveling wave tubes (TWTs)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; POWER ELECTRONICS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

ELECTRONIC POWER CONDITIONERS; MILLIMETER-WAVE POWER AMPLIFIER; RF OUTPUT POWER; SPACE-SATELLITE-COMMUNICATION;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33847633367     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2006.888721     Document Type: Article

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