Repetitive production of nanosecond gigawatt microwave pulses

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 36, Issue 3 PART 1, 2008, Pages 655-660

  Rostov, Vladislav V ^a   Yalandin, Michael I ^b   Mesyats, Gennady A ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH CURRENT ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTROPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Backward wave oscillator (BWO); Cyclotron resonance; Repetitive operation; Superradiance

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON OPTICS; MICROWAVE GENERATION; MICROWAVES; PARTICLE BEAMS; POWER GENERATION; RADIOFREQUENCY SPECTROSCOPY; STABILIZATION;

BACKWARD WAVE OSCILLATOR (BWO); CYCLOTRON RESONANCE; ELECTRON-BEAM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; HIGH CURRENTS; HIGH-POWER MICROWAVE; MICROWAVE POWERS; MICROWAVE PULSES; PULSE PEAK POWER; REPETITIVE OPERATION; RF FIELDING; SLOW-WAVE STRUCTURE; SUPERRADIANCE;

MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS;

EID: 45949103675     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2008.923736     Document Type: Article

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