Additive manufacturing method of prototyping novel mm-wave and THz sources

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Surface and volume mode coupling experiments for high power mm-wave sources

“…The construction of all-metallic cylindrical PSL structures based on the same fundamental mode-coupling principles and suitable for being excited and driven by an electron beam is the subject of another related paper being presented in this Workshop [14]. …”