Frequency-tunable CW gyro-BWO with a helically rippled operating waveguide

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 32, Issue 3 I, 2004, Pages 884-889

  Samsonov, Sergey V ^a   Denisov, Gregory G ^a   Bratman, Vfladimir L ^a   Bogdashov, Alexander A ^a   Glyavin, Mikhail Yu ^a   Luchinin, Alexei G ^a   Lygin, Vladimir K ^a   Thumm, Manfred K ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKWARD WAVE TUBES; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON CYCLOTRON RESONANCE; HELICAL WAVEGUIDES; MAGNETRONS; MASERS; MICROWAVE GENERATION; MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS;

CONTINUOUS WAVE HIGH POWER MICROWAVE DEVICE; CYCLOTRON RESONANCE MASER; GYROTRON BACKWARD WAVE OSCILLATOR; SMOOTH FREQUENCY TUNING;

GYROTRONS;

EID: 4344679677     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2004.828871     Document Type: Article

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