Demonstration of a 140-GHz 1-kW confocal gyro-traveling-wave amplifier

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 818-827

  Joye, Coin D ^a   Shapiro, Michael A ^a   Sirigiri, Jagadishwar R ^a   Temkin, Richard J ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confocal; Gyro amplifier; Gyro traveling wave tube (gyro TWT)

Indexed keywords

BEAM CURRENTS; CONFOCAL; DESIGN PROCESS; DYNAMIC NUCLEAR POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORIES; ELECTRON PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE; GYRATING ELECTRONS; GYRO-AMPLIFIER; GYRO-TRAVELING-WAVE TUBE (GYRO-TWT); GYRO-TWA; INTERACTION THEORY; INTERNAL REFLECTIONS; LINEAR GAIN; OVERMODED; PEAK POWER; PITCH FACTOR; PULSE BROADENING; PULSE LENGTH; SHORT PULSE; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; TRAVELING WAVE AMPLIFIERS; WIDE-BAND;

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRONS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; MICROWAVE TUBES; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; PARAMAGNETISM; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; TRAVELING WAVE TUBES;

GYROSCOPES;

EID: 67349238166     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2009.2015802     Document Type: Article

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