【内容简介】

Following in the footsteps of its popular predecessors, High Power Microwaves, Third Edition continues to provide a wide-angle, integrated view of the field of high power microwaves (HPMs). This third edition includes significant updates in every chapter as well as a new chapter on beamless systems that covers nonlinear transmission lines.

 

Written by an experimentalist, a theorist, and an applied theorist, respectively, the book offers complementary perspectives on different source types. The authors address:

 

• How HPM relates historically and technically to the conventional microwave field
• The possible applications for HPM and the key criteria that HPM devices have to meet in order to be applied
• How high power sources work, including their performance capabilities and limitations
• The broad fundamental issues to be addressed in the future for a wide variety of source types

 

The book is accessible to several audiences. Researchers currently in the field can widen their understanding of HPM. Present or potential users of microwaves will discover the advantages of the dramatically higher power levels that are being made available. Newcomers to the field can pursue further research. Decision makers in direct energy acquisition and related fields, such as radar, communications, and high energy physics, can see how developments in HPM will affect them.

 

【目录】

Introduction 
Origins of HPM 
HPM Operating Regimes 
Future Directions in HPM 
Further Reading

 

 

Designing High Power Microwave Systems 
Systems Approach to High Power Microwaves 
Looking at Systems 
Linking Components into a System 
Systems Issues 
Scoping an Advanced System
Conclusion

 

 

High Power Microwave Applications 
Introduction 
HPM Weapons
High-Power Radar 
Power Beaming 
Space Propulsion 
Plasma Heating 
Particle Accelerators

 

 

Microwave Fundamentals 
Introduction 
Basic Concepts in Electromagnetics 
Waveguides
Periodic Slow-Wave Structures 
Cavities 
Intense Relativistic Electron Beams 
Rotating Magnetically Insulated Electron Layers 
Microwave-Generating Interactions
Amplifiers and Oscillators, High- and Low-Current Operating Regimes 
Phase and Frequency Control 
Multispectral Sources 
Summary

 

 

Enabling Technologies 
Introduction 
Pulsed Power
Electron Beam Generation and Propagation 
Microwave Pulse Compression 
Antennas and Propagation 
Diagnostics 
Computational Techniques 
HPM Facilities
Further Reading

 

 

Beamless Systems 
Introduction 
UWB Systems 
Nonlinear Transmission Lines 
Conclusion

 

 

Relativistic Magnetrons and MILOs 
Introduction 
History 
Design Principles 
Operational Features
Research and Development Issues 
Fundamental Limitations 
MILOs 
Crossed-Field Amplifiers 
Summary

 

 

BWOs, MWCGs, and O-Type Cerenkov Devices 
Introduction 
History
Design Principles 
Operational Features 
Research and Development Issues
Fundamental Limitations 
Summary

 

 

Klystrons and Reltrons 
Introduction 
History 
Design Principles 
Operational Features
Research and Development Issues 
Fundamental Limitations
Summary

 

 

Vircators 
Introduction 
Vircator History 
Vircator Design Principles 
Operational Features 
Double-Anode Vircators 
Cavity Vircators 
Feedback Vircators 
Coaxial Vircators 
Phase Locking Vircators 
Applications and Limitations of Vircators

 

 

Gyrotrons, Electron Cyclotron Masers, and Free-Electron Lasers 
Introduction
Gyrotrons and ECMs 
Free-Electron Lasers 
Summary

 

Problems and References appear at the end of each chapter.