High Power Microwaves for Defense and Accelerator Applications

Abstract

This paper discusses high power microwaves for application to the Defense Department and to the powering of large accelerators. The microwave sources discussed are the SLAC klystron, the relativistic klystron, the magnetron and the vircator. (jhd)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 11, 1990
Accession Number
ADA223550

Entities

People

  • Wallace M. Manheimer

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Charged Particles
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Dispersion Relations
  • Electric Fields
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Electron Beams
  • Energy
  • Energy Transfer
  • High Power Microwaves
  • Klystrons
  • Linear Accelerators
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Microwave Tubes
  • Particle Physics
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Transmission Lines
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy