Design of a subterahertz, third-harmonic, continuous-wave gyrotron

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 36, Issue 3 PART 1, 2008, Pages 591-596

  Glyavin, Mikhail Yu ^a   Luchinin, Alexey G ^a   Manuilov, Vladimir N ^a   Nusinovich, G S ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy of fabrication; Gyrotron; Harmonics; Resonator Q factor; Starting current; Subterahertz

Indexed keywords

POWER GENERATION;

ACCURACY OF FABRICATION; CONTINUOUS WAVES; CYCLOTRON HARMONICS; GYROTRON; HARMONICS; HIGH-POWER MICROWAVE; RESONATOR Q-FACTOR; STARTING CURRENT; SUBTERAHERTZ;

GYROTRONS;

EID: 45949088857     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2008.917530     Document Type: Article

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