The condition for mutual, or peer-to-peer, locking of two magnetrons is derived. This condition reduces to Adler’s classical phase-locking condition in the limit where one magnetron becomes the “master” and the other becomes the “slave.” The formulation is extended to the peer-to-peer locking of N magnetrons, under the assumption that the electromagnetic coupling among the N magnetrons is modeled by an N-port network.
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