Microwave pulse compression in dispersive plasmas
Abstract
This patent application relates to power multiplication of microwave signals and more specifically to pulse compression of high power microwave pulses with a plasma filled waveguide. A plasma-filled waveguide acts as a dispersive element for pulse compression or power multiplication of a frequency chirped microwave signal. In one embodiment, the frequency of the source is chirped near a plasma resonance while the plasma waveguide is held constant in time. In a second embodiment, the source frequency is held fixed while the plasma filled waveguide parameters are varied in time in the vicinity of a plasma resonance.
- Publication:
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Patent Application Department of the Navy
- Pub Date:
- July 1986
- Bibcode:
- 1986padn.rept.....R
- Keywords:
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- Microwave Equipment;
- Plasma Resonance;
- Plasmaguides;
- Plasmas (Physics);
- Pulse Compression;
- Chirp;
- Patent Applications;
- Power Amplifiers;
- Pulses;
- Plasma Physics