Minimum Noise Figure of Traveling-Wave Tubes with Uniform Helices
- 1 September 1954
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 25 (9), 1163-1165
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1721832
Abstract
By using a new theorem concerning noise in electron streams together with work by D. A. Watkins, an expression for the minimum noise figure of a traveling-wave tube with a uniform helix is deduced. For reasonable values of tube parameters this minimum lies around 6 db.Keywords
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- A Theorem Concerning Noise in Electron StreamsJournal of Applied Physics, 1954