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Study on the Suppression of Gyro-BWO by Distributed Wall Losses

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In this paper, the effect of distributed wall losses on the starting length and starting frequency of a TE21 mode gyro-BWO is investigated for different operating magnetic fields by using a linear theory. Numerical results show that, for the efficient suppression of a gyro-BWO in a distributed wall losses gyro-TWA consisting of a lossy section followed by a copper section, the wall losses applied in the lossy section should be able to provide a cold attenuation approximately equal to the linear growth rate of the gyro-BWO in the case of wall losses neglected and the copper section length should be shorter than the starting length of the corresponding gyro-BWO without wall losses loaded.

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This work was supported by the Funds for Doctor Degree Teacher of North China Electric Power University (Grant No. 200822008).

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    Chong-Qing Jiao

  2. Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100080, China

    Ji-Run Luo

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Jiao, CQ., Luo, JR. Study on the Suppression of Gyro-BWO by Distributed Wall Losses. J Infrared Milli Terahz Waves 30, 924–930 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10762-009-9522-6

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