Startup scenarios in high-power gyrotrons

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 32, Issue 3 I, 2004, Pages 841-852

  Nusinovich, Gregory S ^a   Sinitsyn, Oleksandr V ^a   Velikovich, Leonid ^a   Yeddulla, Muralidhar ^a   Antonsen Jr , Thomas M ^a   Vlasov, Alexander N ^b   Cauffman, Stephen R ^b   Felch, Kevin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON CYCLOTRON RESONANCE; MICROWAVE GENERATION; MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS; MILLIMETER WAVES; PLASMA HEATING;

ELECTRON CYCLOTRON CURRENT DRIVE; ELECTRON CYCLOTRON RESONANCE HEATING; MULTIMODE SIMULATIONS;

GYROTRONS;

EID: 4344612335     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2004.828854     Document Type: Article

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