High power Amplifier using Vacuum electronics for Overmatch Capability (HAVOC)
Abstract
The effectiveness of combat operations across all domains increasingly depends on our ability to control and exploit the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum, and to deny its use to our adversaries. Below 30 GHz, the proliferation and availability of inexpensive high-power commercial RF sources has made the EM spectrum crowded and contested, challenging our spectrum dominance. The numerous tactical advantages offered by operating at higher frequencies, most notably the wide bandwidths available, is driving both commercial and DoD solid-state and vacuum electronic amplifiers into the millimeter wave (mm-wave) spectrum above 30 GHz. Control of the mm-wave spectrum necessitates advanced and increasingly more sophisticated electronic components and systems. The performance of these systems strongly depends on the available amplifier power. The High power Amplifier using Vacuum electronics for Overmatch Capability (HAVOC) program will fund basic research in the area of vacuum electronics with the ultimate goal of improving the fundamental understanding of the various phenomena governing the science and technology for the next generation of vacuum electronic amplifiers operating at mm-wave frequencies above 75 GHz. Focus areas will include modeling and simulation techniques, advanced manufacturing methods, novel beam-wave interaction structures, high current density and long-life cathodes, and other relevant topics. Applied research efforts are funded in PE 0602716E, Project ELT-01.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2017
- Source ID
- 08b642039ec08afb86415d7b8b3384a6