| Course Description: | Presents the fundamental principles and operation of the principal types of conventional (linear-beam and crossed-field) and novel (maser effect) devices. Topics include interactions of nonrelativistic and relativistic electron beams with electromagnetic fields, linear-beam tubes (klystron, traveling wave tube, backward-wave amplifier, and oscillator), crossed-field tubes (magnetron, forward-and-backward cross-field amplifier, and high-gain CFA), and maser-effect devices (cyclotron maser and gyrotron). |