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AAWSAP DIRD, Pulsed High-Power Microwave Source Technology, January 2010

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Explosively Driven Generators ......................................................................... 16
Pulsed High-Power Microwave Sources................................................................ 17
Pulsed Electron Beam Sources ......................................................................... 17
BWOs, TWTs, and RKAs ..................................................................................... 17
Split-Cavity Oscillators ..................................................................................... 18
Virtual Cathode Oscillators ............................................................................... 18
Magnetrons ...................................................................................................... 18
Gyrotrons ......................................................................................................... 19
Impulse HPM Sources ...................................................................................... 20
SNIPER............................................................................................................. 20
EMBL ................................................................................................................ 20
H-Series HPM Sources ...................................................................................... 20
The Phoenix HPM Source.................................................................................. 22
The GEM II HPM Source ................................................................................... 24
The Jolt HPM source ......................................................................................... 24
Mesoband Sources ........................................................................................... 24
HPM Antennas ...................................................................................................... 25
Narrowband Antennas...................................................................................... 25
Wideband and Ultrawideband Antennas ........................................................... 27
Conclusion............................................................................................................ 29
Figures
Figure 1. Paschen Curve for Air ............................................................................ 13
Figure 6. Cross-Section Drawing of HS With Point Geometry Converter, Brewster
Figure 7. HS Output Section With the Point Geometry Converter Feeding an
Figure 2. Example of Marx Generator Circuit ........................................................ 16
Figure 3. Orion HPM Testing Facility....................................................................... 19
Figure 4. Active Denial System With FLAPS Antenna ............................................ 20
Figure 5. H2 With Large TEM Horn and PGC Output .............................................. 21
Angle Window, and Extended-Ground-Plane Antenna ........................... 21
Extended-Ground-Plane Antenna Through a Brewster Angle Window ... 22
Figure 8. Phoenix Radiated Pulse at 8.5 Meters ................................................... 23
Figure 9. Phoenix Radiated Spectral Content ....................................................... 23
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