Coaxial-waveguide gyrotron amplifier operating with high power and ultrahigh gain in millimeter and submillimeter waves

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 32, Issue 3 I, 2004, Pages 981-986

  Zhang, Shi Chang ^a   Ouyang, Zheng Biao ^b   Qiu, Chun Rong ^a   Zhang, Hui Bo ^a   Jin, Jian Bo ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYCLOTRON RESONANCE; GAIN MEASUREMENT; KINETIC THEORY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; MICROWAVE GENERATION; MILLIMETER WAVES; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES; TRAVELING WAVE TUBES; WAVEGUIDES;

COAXIAL WAVEGUIDE; CYCLOTRON HARMONIC; GYROKINETICS; GYROTRON TRAVELING WAVE AMPLIFIER;

GYROTRONS;

EID: 4344681580     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2004.828876     Document Type: Article

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