Refined Measurement and Signal Analysis Techniques in Vacuum and Plasma-Filled High Power Microwave Sources

Abstract

This report describes the acquisition and utilization of instrumentation in the support of high power microwave (HPM) research. Recent advances in understanding the output of intense beam-driven relativistic requires both highly temporally resolved measurement capabilities, coupled with signal processing techniques such as time-frequency analysis. In particular, better understanding of nonlinear effects such as mode-hopping due to the cross-excitation instability, required the ability to resolve frequency shifts during the generation of HPM radiation. The instrumentation acquired under this FY'99 DURIP grant led to the careful diagnosis of this instability.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 15, 2000
Accession Number
ADA378843

Entities

People

  • Edl Schamiloglu
  • Frank Hegeler

Organizations

  • University of New Mexico

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analyzers
  • Backward Wave Oscillators
  • Data Acquisition
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Detectors
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Excitation
  • Frequency
  • High Power Microwaves
  • Instability
  • Instrumentation
  • Measurement
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Microwaves
  • Oscillators
  • Signal Processing

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy