Cutler, Cassius Chapin, 1914-
History of traveling wave tubes [videorecording] / Taped at Hughes Aircraft Co., Canoga Park, CA ; 1983 April 7.
A lecture given at Hughes Aircraft Company regarding the development of the traveling wave tube at Bell Telephone Laboratories during the 1940s. Cutler elaborates on the contributions of Rudy Kompfner and J. R. Pierce as well as his own work on the development of circuits for the tubes and the use of Brillouin flow in focusing the beam. The lecture is supported by slides and viewgraphs of drawings and diagrams from the laboratory notebooks of Kompfner, Pierce, and Cutler.
Physicist and educator. Director, electronic and computer systems research, Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1937-1978; professor of applied science, Stanford University from 1979.
Pierce, John R. (John Robinson), 1910-2002
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Traveling-wave tubes.
Brillouin flow.
Cutler, Cassius Chapin.
Kompfner, Rudolf, 1909-1977
Hughes Aircraft Company
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