Folded waveguide traveling-wave tube sources for terahertz radiation

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 32, Issue 3 I, 2004, Pages 1002-1014

  Bhattacharjee, Sudeep ^a   Booske, John H ^a   Kory, Carol L ^b   van der Weide, Dan W ^a   Limbach, Steve ^a   Gallagher, S ^a   Welter, John D ^a   Lopez, Mike R ^b   Gilgenbach, Ronald M ^b   Ives, R Lawrence ^b   Read, Michael E ^b   Divan, Ralu ^c   Mancini, D C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b IEEE   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROFORMING; ELECTRON BEAMS; FEEDBACK AMPLIFIERS; MICROELECTRONIC PROCESSING; MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS; MOLDING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; REACTIVE ION ETCHING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES; X RAY LITHOGRAPHY;

DELAYED FEEDBACK OSCILLATOR; FOLDED WAVEGUIDES; FREQUENCY SPECTRUM; HIGH POWER TETRAHERTZ RADIATION; PHASE STABILITY;

TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

EID: 4344600624     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2004.828886     Document Type: Article

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