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Article title

Corrugated Rectangular Waveguide Tunable Backward Wave Oscillator for Terahertz Applications

Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Article number
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Volume number
57
Issue number
6
First page of article
1481
ISSN of journal
0018-9383
Year of publication
2010
Number of additional authors
1
Additional information

The availability of vacuum electron tubes for the development of THz frequency-based technologies solves the inadequacy of solid state and optoelectronic technologies for this application. This research, funded by the international EU FP7 OPTHER (Optically Driven THz amplifier) project, reports a novel backward wave oscillator (BWO) that demonstrates a record output power of >100mW at 1 THz, over a wide tuning frequency range. The BWO operates at low beam voltage to be affordable, compact and thus marketable. This paper has led to a collaboration with the University of Davis (Prof. Luhmann) for a BWO for nuclear fusion plasma diagnostics.

Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
D - Engineering of Microwaves, Terahertz & Light
Proposed double-weighted
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Double-weighted statement
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Reserve for a double-weighted output
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Non-English
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English abstract
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