High-power gyrotrons for electron cyclotron heating and current drive

MKA Thumm, GG Denisov, K Sakamoto… - Nuclear Fusion, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
In many tokamak and stellarator experiments around the globe that are investigating energy
production via controlled thermonuclear fusion, electron cyclotron heating and current drive …

The gyrotrons as promising radiation sources for THz sensing and imaging

T Idehara, SP Sabchevski, M Glyavin, S Mitsudo - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
The gyrotrons are powerful sources of coherent radiation that can operate in both pulsed
and CW (continuous wave) regimes. Their recent advancement toward higher frequencies …

[HTML][HTML] Status and future development of heating and current drive for the EU DEMO

MQ Tran, P Agostinetti, G Aiello, K Avramidis… - Fusion engineering and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The European DEMO is a pulsed device with pulse length of 2 hours. The functions devoted
to the heating and current drive system are: plasma breakdown, plasma ramp-up to the flat …

State-of-the-art of high-power gyro-devices and free electron masers

M Thumm - Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, 2020 - Springer
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 …

[图书][B] State-of-the-Art of High Power Gyro-Devices and Free Electron Masers. Update 2017 (KIT Scientific Reports; 7750)

M Thumm - 2018 - books.google.com
Gyrotron oscillators (gyromonotrons) are mainly used as high power millimeter wave
sources for electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH), electron cyclotron current drive …

State-of-the-art of high power gyro-devices and free electron masers. Update 2015

M Thumm - State-of-the-Art of High Power Gyro-Devices and Free …, 2016 - uplopen.com
Gyrotron oscillators (gyromonotrons) are mainly used as high power millimeter wave
sources for electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH), electron cyclotron current drive …

Studies of a leaky-wave phased array antenna for high-power microwave applications

L Guo, W Huang, C Chang, J Li, Y Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A high-power 1-D phased array of 1-D leaky-wave antennas (high-power leaky-wave
phased array antenna) is proposed and investigated. This array antenna is characterized by …

[HTML][HTML] Design considerations for future DEMO gyrotrons: A review on related gyrotron activities within EUROfusion

J Jelonnek, G Aiello, S Alberti, K Avramidis… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Long-term options for a steady-state DEMOnstration power plant may require the availability
of gyrotrons with an operating frequency significantly above 200 GHz together with an RF …

[图书][B] State-of-the-Art of High-Power Gyro-Devices: Update of Experimental Results 2023

M Thumm - 2024 - library.oapen.org
This report presents an update of the experimental achievements published in the review
“State-of-the-Art of High-Power Gyro-Devices and Free Electron Masers”, Journal of Infrared …

Reflective gyrotron backward-wave oscillator with piecewise frequency tunability

CH Tsai, TH Chang, Y Tatematsu… - … on Electron Devices, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The gyrotron backward-wave oscillators (gyro-BWOs) feature a continuous frequency
tunability in a single transverse mode, while the step-tunable gyrotrons are famous for their …