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High Power Microwaves, 4th Edition
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High Power Microwaves, 4th Edition

by James Benford, Edl Schamiloglu, Jacob Coty Stephens, John A. Swegle, Peng Zhang
December 2024
Intermediate to advanced
510 pages
21h 30m
English
CRC Press
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CHAPTER 12 High Power Microwave Amplifiers

DOI: 10.1201/9781003287704-12

CONTENTS

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Amplifier Basics

12.3 HPM Amplifier History

12.4 Recent Advances

12.5 Fundamental Limitations

12.6 Concluding Remarks and Outlook

12.1 Introduction

In the wake of the power derby and the years that followed, the high power microwave (HPM) community witnessed tremendous growth and progress with regard to Pf2 scaling of HPM sources and overall system capabilities. These efforts were largely focused on HPM oscillators, which feature no means of controlling or modulating the output signal phase or amplitude. As powers increased to multi-gigawatt levels, breakdown, pulse shortening, etc. imposed fundamental upper limits on achievable power ...

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