HIGH POWER MICROWAVE ELECTRONICS
Abstract
Included is a report on the present statuse C-band microwave high power facility located at the Long Island Graduate Center of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn; the design and construction of a high power microwave flywheel operating in oversized rectangular waveguide; the development of two different broadband, gaseous discharge type, C-band microwave switches of low insertion loss and high speed, acting in a few tens of nanoseconds or less and capable of handling megawatt peak powers; and work on the interaction of high microwave fields with metals. The switching work was aimed toward solving the problem of discharging the energy that will be built up in the microwave flywheel as a short pulse of extremely high power (35-50 Mw). The interaction of high microwave fields with metals was obtained in a coaxial resonator operating in the TE01 circular electric mode with the test specimen as inner conductor. With moderate average powers (about 400 w) it was possible to melt thin-walled tubes of stainless steel and aluminum and to simulate the effect that might be produced by a uniform plane wave of several hundred thousand w/sq cm power density incident (normally) on a sheet of metal.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 10, 1963
- Accession Number
- AD0414095
Entities
People
- John W.e. Griemsmann
Organizations
- New York University Tandon School of Engineering