Self-excitation of a tapered gyrotron oscillator

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 38, Issue 6 PART 1, 2010, Pages 1200-1207

  Nusinovich, Gregory S ^a   Pu, Ruifeng ^a   Sinitsyn, Oleksandr V ^a   Yu, Jiao ^b   Antonsen Jr , Thomas M ^b   Granatstein, Victor L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Gyrotron oscillator; Start current; Terahertz radiation

Indexed keywords

AIRY FUNCTION; AXIAL PROFILES; AXIAL STRUCTURE; AXIAL VARIATIONS; BACKWARD WAVE OSCILLATOR; CIRCUIT FABRICATION; GENERAL THEORY; GYROTRON OSCILLATORS; INTERACTION CIRCUITS; LINEAR THEORY; OPERATING PARAMETERS; QUALITY FACTORS; SELF EXCITATION; SELF-EXCITATION CONDITIONS; SINUSOIDAL DISTRIBUTION; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

CUTOFF FREQUENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; ELECTRON BEAMS; GYROTRONS; MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS; PLASMA OSCILLATIONS;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 77953296346     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2010.2046638     Document Type: Article

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