backward wave

[′bak·wərd ‚wāv]

(electromagnetism)

An electromagnetic wave traveling opposite to the direction of motion of some other physical quantity in an electronic device such as a traveling-wave tube or mismatched transmission line.

Mentioned in

amplitron
backward-wave magnetron
backward-wave oscillator
Backward-Wave Tube
BWO
carcinotron
crossed-field backward-wave oscillator
Electron-Tube Device
helitron
Interaction Structure
Karp circuit
Magnetron-Type Devices
Microwave Engineering
M-type backward-wave oscillator
M-type carcinotron
Oscillator Tube
O-type backward-wave oscillator
O-type carcinotron
Platinotron

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