Gyrotrons form a specific group of devices in the class of fast-wave vacuum electronic
sources of coherent electromagnetic wave radiation known as electron cyclotron masers …

In many tokamak and stellarator experiments around the globe that are investigating energy
production via controlled thermonuclear fusion, electron cyclotron heating and current drive …

This paper presents a review of the experimental achievements related to the development
of high-power gyrotron oscillators for long-pulse or CW operation and pulsed gyrotrons for …

This article reviews the state-of-the-art in high-power microwave source research. It begins
with a discussion of the concepts involved in coherent microwave generation. The main …

Gyrotron oscillators (gyrotrons) are capable of providing hundreds of kilo watts of power at
microwave and millimetric wavelengths. From their con ception in the late fifties until their …

This book focuses on a fundamental feature of vacuum electronics: the strong interaction of
the physics of electron beams and vacuum microwave electronics, including millimeter-wave …

This review discusses the present state-of-the-art of passive high-power microwave
components for applications in microwave systems for RF plasma generation and heating …

Gyrodevice oscillators and amplifiers (or gyro-oscillators and gyro-amplifiers) are being
utilized in a variety of applications where high power levels are required at millimeter-wave …

Gyrotron oscillators (gyromonotrons) are mainly used as high power millimeter wave
sources for electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH), electron cyclotron current drive …

The Wendelstein 7X (W7-X) stellarator (R= 5.5 m, a= 0.55 m, B< 3.0 T), which at present is
being built at Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Greifswald, aims at demonstrating the …