Skip to main content

Generation of High-Power Pulsed Microwaves

  • Chapter
Pulsed Power
  • 1725 Accesses

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 299.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book
USD 379.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  • Barker, R. J. and Schamiloglu, E., 2001, High-Power Microwave Sources and Technologies. IEEE Press and John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bastrikov, A. N., Bugaev, S. P., Vorob’yushko, M. I., Dul’zon, A. A., Kassirov, G. M., Koval’chuk, B. M., Kokshenev, V. A., Koshelev, V. I., Manylov, V. I., Mesyats, G. A., Novikov, A. A., Podkovyrov, V. G., Potalitsyn, Yu. F., Sukhushin, K. N., Timofeev, M. N., and Yakovlev, V. P., 1989, “Gamma”, a High-Current Electron Accelerator, Prib. Tekh. Eksp. 2:36–41.

    Google Scholar 

  • Batrakov, A. V., Karlik, K. V., Kitsanov, S. A., Klimov, A. I., Konovalov, I. N., Korovin, S. D., Mesyats, G. A., Ozur, G. E., Pegel, I. V., Polevin, S. D., Proskurovsky, D. I., and Sukhov, M. Yu., 2001, Increasing the Microwave Pulse Duration in a Gigawatt Relativistic BWO by Treating the Surface of the Slow-Wave Structure with a Low-Energy, High-Current Electron Beam, Pis’ma Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 27:39–46.

    Google Scholar 

  • Benford, J. and Benford, G., 1997, Survey of Pulse Shortening in High-Power Microwave Sources, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 25:311–317.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Benford, J. and Swegle, J., 1992, High Power Microwaves. Artech House, Boston.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bugaev, S. P., Kanavets, V. I., Klimov, A. I., and Koshelev, V. I., 1988, The Atmospheric Microwave Discharge and Examination of the Coherence of the Radiation from a Relativistic Multiwave Cherenkov Oscillator, Dok. Akad. Nauk SSSR. 298:92–94.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bugaev, S. P., Kanavets, V. I., Klimov, A. I., Koshelev, V. I., and Cherepenin, V. A., 1983, Relativistic Multiwave Cherenkov Oscillator, Pis’ma Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 9:1385–1389.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bugaev, S. P., Kanavets, V. I., Klimov, A. I., Koshelev, V. I., Mesyats, G. A., and Cherepenin, V. A., 1984, Generation of High-Power Electromagnetic Pulses by High-Current Relativistic Electron Beams of Microsecond Duration, Dok. Akad. Nauk SSSR. 276:1102–1104.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bugaev, S. P., Kanavets, V. I., Koshelev, V. I., and Cherepenin, V. A., 1991, Relativistic Multiwave Microwave Generators (in Russian). Nauka, Novosibirsk.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bunkin, B. V., Gaponov-Grekhov, A. V., El’chaninov, A. S., Zagulov, F. Ya., Korovin, S. D., Mesyats, G. A., Osipov, M. L., Otlivanchik, E. A., Petelin, M. I., Prokhorov, A. M., Rostov, V. V., Sisakyan, I. P., and Smorgonsky, A. V., 1992, Radar Based on a Microwave Oscillator with a Relativistic Electron Beam, Pis’ma Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 18:61–64.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bykov, N. M., Gubanov, V. P., Gunin, A. V., Denisov, G. G., Zagulov, F. Ya., Korovin, S. D., Larichev, Yu. D., Orlova, I. M., Polevin, S. D., Rostov, V. V., Smorgonsky, A. V., and Yakushev, A. F., 1988, Repetitively Pulsed Relativistic Microwave Oscillators in the Centimeter Wavelength Range. In Relativistic RF Electronics (in Russian), Gorki, Vol. 5, pp. 101–124.

    Google Scholar 

  • Carmel, Y., Ivers, J., Kribel, R.E., and Nation, J., 1974, Intense Coherent Cherenkov Radiation due to the Interaction of a Relativistic Electron Beam with a Slow-Wave Structure, Phys. Rev. Lett. 33:1278–1282.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Christofilos, N. C., Hester, R. E., Lamb, W. A. S., Reagan, D. D., Sherwood, W. A., and Wright, R. E., 1964, High Current Linear Induction Accelerator for Electrons, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 35:886–890.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Clark, M. C., Marder, B. M., and Bacon, L. D., 1988, Magnetically Insulated Transmission Line Oscillator, Appl. Phys. Lett. 52:78–80.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Didenko, A. N. and Yushkov, Yu. G., 1984, High-Power Nanosecond Microwave Pulses (in Russian). Energoatomizdat, Moscow.

    Google Scholar 

  • Didenko, A. N., Grigor’ev, V. P., and Zherlitsyn, A. G., 1989, Generation of Electromagnetic Oscillations in Virtual Cathode Systems. In Plasma Electronics (in Russian, V. I. Kurilko, ed.), Naukova Dumka, Kiev, pp. 112–131.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dulevich, V. E., ed., 1964, Basic Principles of Radiolocation (in Russian). Sov. Radio, Moscow.

    Google Scholar 

  • El’chaninov, A. S., Zagulov, F. Ya., Korovin, S. D., and Rostov, V. V., 1982, Relativistic Electron-Beam Klystron, Izv. Vyssh. Uchebn. Zaved., Radiofizika. 25:966–968.

    Google Scholar 

  • El’chaninov, A. S., Korovin, S. D., Mesyats, G. A., Shpak, V. G., and Yalandin, M. I., 1984, Generation of High-Power Microwaves Using Compact High-Current Accelerators, Dok. Akad. Nauk SSSR. 279:624–626.

    Google Scholar 

  • El’chaninov, A. S., Zagulov, F. Ya., Korovin, S. D., and Mesyats, G. A., 1979, Electron Beam Accelerator with High Pulse Recurrence Frequency. In Proc. III Intern. Conf. High Power Electron and Ion Beams, Novosibirsk, USSR. Vol. 1, pp. 191–197.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fortov, V. E., ed., 2002, Magnetic Explosion Generators of High-Power Electric Current Pulses (in Russian). Nauka, Moscow.

    Google Scholar 

  • Friedman, M., Krall, J., Lau, Y. Y., and Serlin, V., 1990, Efficient Generation of Multi-GW Microwave Power by Klystronlike Amplifier, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 61:171.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gadetsky, N. P., Magda, I. I., Naisteter, S. I., Prokopenko, Yu. V., and Chumakov, V. I., 1993, Supercritical Current REB Generator with Controlled Feedback (Virtode), Fiz. Plazmy. 19:530–537.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gaponov-Grekhov, A. V. and Petelin, M. I., 1979, Relativistic RF Electronics, Vestnik Akad. Nauk SSSR. 4:11–23.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gaponov-Grekhov, A.V., ed., 1979–1992, Relativistic Radiofrequency Electronics (in Russian). Gorki (Nizhni Novgorod), No. 1–7.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ginzburg, N. S., Krementsov, V. I., Petelin, M. I., Strelkov, P. S., and Shkvarunets, A. G., 1979, Experimental Studies of a Cyclotron-Resonance Maser with a High-Current Electron Beam, Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 42:378–385.

    Google Scholar 

  • Goebel, Dan M., Schumacher, R. W., and Eisenhart, R. L., 1998, Performance and Pulse Shortening Effects in 200-kV PASOTRON HPM Source, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 26:354–365.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Goor, E. G., Birx, D. L., and Reginato, L. L., 1983, The Advanced Test Accelerator — High-Current Induction LINAC, IEEE Tranc. Nucl. Sci. 30:1381–1386.

    Google Scholar 

  • Granatstein, V. L. and Alexeff, I., eds., 1987, High-Power Microwave Sources (The Artech House Microwave Libr.). Artech House, Boston, London.

    Google Scholar 

  • Grishin, D. M., Gubanov, V. P., Korovin, S. D., Lyubitin, S. K., Mesyats, G. A., Nikiforov, A. V., Rostov, V. V., Rukin, S. N., Slovikovsky, B. G., Ul’maskulov, M. R., Sharypov, K. A., Shpak, V. G., Shunailov, S. A., and Yalandin, M. I., 2002, Generation of Subnanosecond High-Power Microwave Pulses in the 38-GHz Range with Pulse Repetition Rates of up to 3.5 kHz, Pis’ma Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 28:24–31.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gunin, A. V., Klimov, A. I., Korovin, S. D., Pegel, I. V., Polevin, S. D., Roitman, A. M., Rostov, V. V., and Stepchenko, A. S., 1998, Relativistic X-Band BWO with 3-GW Output Power, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 26:326–331.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gunin, A. V., Korovin, S. D., Kurkan, I. K., Pegel, I. V., Rostov, V. V., and Totmeninov, V. I., 1998, Relativistic BWO with Electron Beam Pre-Modulation. In Proc. XII Int. Conf. on High-Power Particle Beams, Haifa, Israel, pp. 849–852.

    Google Scholar 

  • Huttlin, G. A., Bushell, M. S., Conrad, D. B., Davis, D. P., Eversole, K. L., Judy, D. C, Lezcano, P. A., Litz, M. S., Pereira, N. R., Ruth, B. G., Weidenheimer, D. M., and Agee, F. J., 1990, The Reflex-Diode HPM Source on Aurora, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 18:618–625.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ivanov, V. S., Kovalev, N. F., Krementsov, S. I., and Raizer, M. D., 1978, Relativistic Carcinotron Operating in the Millimeter Range, Pis’ma Zh. Tekh Fiz. 4:817–820.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jiang, W., Woolverton, K., Dickens, J., and Kristiansen, M., 1999, High Power Microwave Generation by a Coaxial Virtual Cathode Oscillator, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 27:1538–1542.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kanavets, V. I., 1982. In Abstracts of Papers of the IV All-Union Symposium on High-Current Electronics (Siberian Division, USSR Acad. Sci., Inst. High-Current Electronics, Inst. Nuclear Physics), Tomsk, Vol. 2, pp. 140–143.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kitsanov, S. A., Klimov, A. I., Korovin, S. D., Kurkan, I. K., Pegel, I. V., and Polevin, S. D., 2002, A Vircator with Electron Beam Premodulation Based on High-Current Repetitively Pulsed Accelerator, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 30 (Iss. 1, Pt 2):274–285.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Korovin, S. D., Mesyats, G. A., Pegel, I. V., Polevin, S. D., and Tarakanov, V. P., 2000, Pulse Width Limitation in the Relativistic Backward Wave Oscillator, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 28:485–495.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Korovin, S. D., Mesyats, G. A., Rostov, V. V., Shpak, V. G., and Yalandin, M. I., 1985, Relativistic Millimeter Microwave Amplifier Based on a Compact High-Current Electron Accelerator, Pis’ma Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 11:1072–1076.

    Google Scholar 

  • Korovin, S. D., Pegel, I. V., Polevin, S. D., and Rostov, V. V., 2002, Vircators. In Microwave Vacuum Electronics (in Russian, M. I. Petelin, ed.), Inst. of Applied Physics, Nizhni Novgorod.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kotov, Yu. A. and Luchinsky, A. V., 1987, Enhancement of the Power of a Capacitive Energy Store by an Electrically-Exploded-Wire Opening Switch. In Physics and Technology of High-Power Pulsed Systems (in Russian), Energoatomizdat, Moscow, pp. 189–211.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kovalev, N. F., Petelin, M. I., Raizer, M. D., Smorgonsky, A. V., and Tsopp, L. E., 1973, Generation of High-Power Pulses of Electromagnetic Radiation by a Relativistic Electron Flow, Pis’ma Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 18:232–235.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kurkan, I. K., Rostov, V. V., and Tot’meninov, V. I., 1998, On the Possibility of Lowering the Magnetic Field in a Relativistic BWO, Pis’ma Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 24: 43–47.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kuzelev, M. V., Mukhametzyanov, F. Kh., Rabinovich, M. S., Rukhadze, A. A., Strelkov, P. S., and Shkvarunets, A. G., 1982, Relativistic Plasma Microwave Oscillator, Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 83:1358–1367.

    Google Scholar 

  • Levush, B., Antonsen, T., Jr., Brombovsky, A., Lou, W. R., and Carmel, Y., 1992, Relativistic Backward-Wave Oscillators: Theory and Experiment, Phys. Fluids. 4B (Pt 2):2293–2299.

    Google Scholar 

  • Loza, O. T. and Strelkov, P. S., 1994, High-Power Microwave Oscillator of Microsecond Pulse Duration Driven by Relativistic Electron Beam. In Proc. X Intern. Conf. on High-Power Particle Beams, San Diego, CA, Vol. 2, p. 958.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mahaffey, R. A., Sprangle, P., Kapetanakos, C. A., and Golden, S., 1977, High Power Microwaves from a Nonisochronic Reflecting Electron System, Phys. Rev. Lett. 39:843.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Manheimer, W. M., Mesyats, G. A., and Petelin, M. I., 1994, Applications of High-Power Microwave Sources to Enhanced Radar Systems. In Applications of High-Power Microwaves (A. V. Gaponov-Grekhov and V. L. Granatstein, eds.; The Artech House Microwave Library), Artech House, Boston, pp. 169–207.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mesyats, G. A., 1984, Pulsed Accelerators in Relativistic Microwave Electronics. In Relativistic RF Electronics (in Russian), Gorki, Vol. 4, pp. 192–216.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mesyats, G. A., 1991, The Problem on Pulse Shortening in Relativistic Microwave Generators. In Proc. Course and Workshop on Power Generation and Applications, Villa Monastera, Varenna, Italy, pp. 345–362.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mesyats, G. A., ed., 1983, Pulsed High-Current Electron Beams in Technology (in Russian). Nauka, Novosibirsk.

    Google Scholar 

  • Miller, R. B., McCullough, W. F., Lancaster, K. T., and Muehlenweg, C. A., 1992, Super-Reltron: Theory and Experiments, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 20:332.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Moreland, L. D., Schamiloglu, E., Lemke, R. W., Korovin, S. D., Rostov, V. V., Roitman, A. V., Hendrics, K. J., and Hendrics, T. A., 1994, Efficiency Enhancement of High Power Vacuum BWO’s Using Nonuniform Slow Wave Structures, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 22:554–565.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Nation, J. A., 1970, On the Coupling of an High-Current Relativistic Electron Beam to a Slow Wave Structure, Appl. Phys. Lett. 17:491–494.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pavlovsky, A. I., Bosamykin, V. S., Kuleshov, G. D., Gerasimov, A. I., Tananakin, V. A., and Klement’ev, A. P., 1975, Multi-Element Accelerators Based on Radial Lines, Dok. Akad. Nauk SSSR. 222:817–820.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pavlovsky, A. I., Bosamykin, V. S., Selemir, V. D., Gordeev, V. S., Dubinov, A. E., Ivanov, V. V., Klement’ev, A. P., Kornilov, V. G., Vatrunin, V. E., Zhdanov, V. S., Konovalov, I. V., Prikhod’ko, I. G., Suvorov, V. G., and Shibalkov, K. V., 1992, Linear Induction Accelerators for Microwave Oscillators. In Relativistic RF Electronics (in Russian), Nizhni Novgorod, Vol. 9, pp. 81–103.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pavlovsky, A. I., Gerasimov, A. I., Zenkov, D. I., Bosamykin, V. S., Klement’ev, A. P., and Tananakin, V. A., 1970, An Ironless Linear Induction Accelerator, At. Energ. 28:432–434.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rukhadze, A. A., Stolbetsov, S. D., and Tarakanov, V. P., 1992, Vircators, Radiotekh. Elektron. 3:385–396.

    Google Scholar 

  • Selemir, V. D., Alekhin, B. V., Vatrunin, V. E., Dubinov, A. E., Stepanov, N. V., Shamro, O. A., and Shibalko, K. V., 1994, Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of Virtual-Cathode Microwave Devices, Fiz. Plazmy. 20:689–708.

    Google Scholar 

  • Selemir, V. D., Dubinov, A. E., Dubinov, E. E., Konovalov, I. V., and Tikhonov, A. V., 2001, A Hybrid Generator Based on the Vircator + TWT System (Virtode), Pis’ma Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 27:25–29.

    Google Scholar 

  • Skolnik, M. I., ed., 1970, Radar Handbook. McGraw Hill, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Strelkov, P. S. and Ul’yanov, D. K., 2000, Emission Spectra from a Relativistic Plasma Cherenkov Microwave Oscillator, Fiz. Plazmy. 26:329.

    Google Scholar 

  • Vakhrushin, Yu. P. and Anatsky, A. I., 1978, Linear Induction Accelerators (in Russian). Atomizdat, Moscow.

    Google Scholar 

  • Yalandin, M. I., Smirnov, G. T., Shpak, V. G., and Shunailov, S. A., 1993, High-Power Repetitive Millimeter Range Back-Wave Oscillators with Nanosecond Relativistic Electron Beam. In Proc. IX IEEE Intern. Pulsed Power Conf., Albuquerque, NM, pp. 88–391.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2005 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc.

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

(2005). Generation of High-Power Pulsed Microwaves. In: Pulsed Power. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48654-7_27

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48654-7_27

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA

  • Print ISBN: 978-0-306-48653-1

  • Online ISBN: 978-0-306-48654-8

  • eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics