A backward wave oscillator (BWO), also called carcinotron or backward wave tube, is a vacuum tube that is used to generate microwaves up to the terahertz...

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from the downstream end. A gyro-BWO is an oscillator that functions analogously to a backward wave oscillator (BWO). It generates oscillations traveling...

microwave transmission lines, Pierce on electron beams, and Gould on backward wave oscillators. This put in place the mathematical foundations for the modern...

accelerator Magnetron Backward-wave oscillator Particle accelerator Traveling-wave tube Waveguide Extended interaction oscillator E.g. Soviet-Russian experimental...

discovered in 1962 by physicist J. B. Gunn. Its main uses are in electronic oscillators to generate microwaves, in applications such as radar speed guns, microwave...

A crystal oscillator is an electronic oscillator circuit that uses a piezoelectric crystal as a frequency-selective element. The oscillator frequency...

and they have similar physical appearances. However, a magnetron is an oscillator, and a CFA is an amplifier (although a CFA can be driven to oscillate...

two or more metal electrodes attached. When connected in an electronic oscillator circuit, resonant mechanical vibrations in the device generate an oscillating...

rectifiers can take the form of a half-wave circuit, a full-wave circuit using a center-tapped transformer, or a full-wave bridge circuit. Thyristors are commonly...

produced by an external oscillator circuit that generates a consistent number of pulses each second in the form of a periodic square wave. The frequency of...

with a particular function (for example an amplifier, radio receiver, or oscillator). Basic electronic components may be packaged discretely, as arrays or...

as a linear amplifier. It is used in free-running oscillators, synchronized or triggered oscillators, and pulse generation circuits at low to moderate...

Pentode Photomultiplier Phototube Tetrode Triode Vacuum tubes (RF) Backward-wave oscillator (BWO) Cavity magnetron Crossed-field amplifier (CFA) Gyrotron Inductive...

Pentode Photomultiplier Phototube Tetrode Triode Vacuum tubes (RF) Backward-wave oscillator (BWO) Cavity magnetron Crossed-field amplifier (CFA) Gyrotron Inductive...

frequency for a voltage-controlled oscillator. Zener diodes These can be made to conduct in reverse bias (backward), and are correctly termed reverse...

Comparator Frequency text should be placed next to each oscillator symbol, such as "16MHz". Crystal oscillator (IEEE‑style) Ceramic resonator (3 pins) Hall-effect...

regulate the voltage applied to a load, such as in a linear regulator. Backward diode E series of preferred numbers Transient voltage suppression diode...

2012[update], viable sources of terahertz radiation are the gyrotron, the backward wave oscillator ("BWO"), the molecule gas far-infrared laser, Schottky-diode multipliers...

power. In 1909, physicist William Eccles discovered the crystal diode oscillator. Physicist Julius Edgar Lilienfeld filed a patent for a field-effect transistor...

invention of the laser in 1960 by Theodore Maiman. When the coherent optical oscillator was first imagined in 1957, it was originally called the "optical maser"...

sawtooth oscillator. The voltage on the grid controls the breakdown voltage and thus the period of oscillation. Thyratron relaxation oscillators were used...

group at the Bristol University. The Sutton tube was developed as a local oscillator for the receiver of 10cm microwave radar sets. Due to its geometry and...

this ripple has the potential to adversely affect the performance of oscillators, data converters, and RF systems being powered by the switcher. However...

Pentode Photomultiplier Phototube Tetrode Triode Vacuum tubes (RF) Backward-wave oscillator (BWO) Cavity magnetron Crossed-field amplifier (CFA) Gyrotron Inductive...

directs it forward, improving brightness. When light waves meet while traveling along the same medium, wave interference occurs. This interference can be constructive...

designed symmetrically, that is, with no difference between forward and backward operation. Small changes in the voltage applied across the base–emitter...

applied microwave signal; the magnetron serves solely as an electronic oscillator generating a microwave signal from direct-current electricity supplied...

Pentode Photomultiplier Phototube Tetrode Triode Vacuum tubes (RF) Backward-wave oscillator (BWO) Cavity magnetron Crossed-field amplifier (CFA) Gyrotron Inductive...

mechanism in the circuit known as the "Joule thief", based on blocking oscillator concepts. This circuit topology is used with low power battery applications...