A TE11 Ka-band gyro-TWT amplifier with high-average power compatible distributed loss

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 32, Issue 3 I, 2004, Pages 947-956

  Pershing, Dean E ^a,b   Nguyen, Khanh T ^a,c   Calame, Jeffrey P ^a   Danly, Bruce G ^a   Levush, Baruch ^a   Wood, Franklin N ^a,b   Garven, M ^a,b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MISSION RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Beam Wave Research Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; GAIN MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; MICROWAVE GENERATION; MILLIMETER WAVES; TRAVELING WAVE TUBES; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

GYRO DEVICES; GYRO TRAVELING WAVE TUBE AMPLIFIER; INPUT COUPLER; TRANSVERSE ELECTRIC MODE;

GYROTRONS;

EID: 4344594980     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2004.828823     Document Type: Article

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