The magnetically insulated transmission line oscillator (MILO) is a high-power microwave device that combines the technologies of magnetically insulated electron flow and slow-wave tubes. This combination makes the MILO a unique and robust device capable of operating at the same frequency over a wide range of voltages. Microwaves are generated in the MILO via an unstable interaction between slow electromagnetic modes and space-charge waves. We present a linear analysis of this microwave instability that includes the physics of magnetically insulated electron flow. A dispersion relation is derived for transverse magnetic modes in a cylindrical MILO. The dispersion relation is solved numerically to obtain the MILO frequency spectrum and instability growth rates.
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