EU megawatt-class 140-GHz CW gyrotron

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 35, Issue 2 I, 2007, Pages 143-153

  Thumm, Manfred ^a,f   Alberti, Stefano ^b   Arnold, Andreas ^a   Brand, Peter ^c   Braune, Harald ^d   Dammertz, Günter ^a   Erckmann, Volker ^d   Gantenbein, Gerd ^a   Giguet, Eric ^e   Heidinger, Roland ^a   Hogge, Jean Philippe ^b   Illy, Stefan ^a   Kasparek, Walter ^c   Laqua, Heinrich Peter ^d   Legrand, Francois ^e   Leonhardt, Wolfgang ^a   Liévin, Christophe ^e   Michel, Georg ^d   Neffe, Günter ^a   Piosczyk, Bernhard ^a   Schmid, Martin ^a   Schwörer, Karl ^c   Tran, Minh Quang ^b   more..

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PLASMAPHYSIK   (Germany)

^e THALES   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) diamond window; Frequency step tuning; Gyrotron; High power microwaves; Quasi optical (q.o.) mode converter; Single stage depressed collector (SDC); Stray radiation

Indexed keywords

CYCLOTRON RADIATION; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON CYCLOTRON RESONANCE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MICROWAVE GENERATION; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; PLASMA HEATING;

FREQUENCY STEP TUNING; QUASI-OPTICAL MODE CONVERTER; SINGLE-STAGE DEPRESSED COLLECTOR; STELLARATOR;

GYROTRONS;

EID: 34247380240     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2007.892144     Document Type: Conference Paper

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