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Exploring New Mechanisms for High Power Millimeter-Wave Gyrotron Amplifiers

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A complex gyrotron amplifier, namely, gyrotron-cascaded pre-bunching amplifier (gyro-CPA), is proposed in this chapter. The amplifier employs three interesting schemes, which are called electron cyclotron maser (ECM)-cascaded amplifier, high-order mode drift tube, and bi-mode operation. These topics are intended for providing solutions to the challenges related to lossy material error control, suppressing instability competitions, and high-power capability in engineering developing a gyrotron amplifier.

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Du, CH., Liu, PK. (2014). Exploring New Mechanisms for High Power Millimeter-Wave Gyrotron Amplifiers. In: Millimeter-Wave Gyrotron Traveling-Wave Tube Amplifiers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54728-7_6

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