Analytic exploration of AM/PM conversion characteristics of high power millimeter-wave traveling wave tubes using Eulerian hydrodynamic analysis

QIU Hai-Jian; HU Yu-Lu; HU Quan; ZHU Xiao-Fang; LI Bin

doi:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2018.05.010

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