High power wideband terahertz traveling wave tube based on folded double ridge groove waveguide

TIAN Yan-Yan; YUE Ling-Na; WANG He-Xin; ZHOU Qing; WEI Yan-Yu; HAO Bao-Liang; WEI Yi-Xue; GONG Yu-Bin

doi:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2018.06.013

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