Nonlinear theory of large-orbit gyrotron traveling wave amplifiers and the effect of misaligned electron beam

WANG Qiu-Shi; LUO Ji-Run; PENG Shu-Yuan

doi:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2016.02.021

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