Designing a high-power array for a target in the upper atmosphere

John M. Myers; Tai Tsun Wu

doi:10.1117/12.147462

8 July 1993 Designing a high-power array for a target in the upper atmosphere

John M. Myers, Tai Tsun Wu

Proceedings Volume 1872, Intense Microwave Pulses; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.147462
Event: OE/LASE'93: Optics, Electro-Optics, and Laser Applications in Scienceand Engineering, 1993, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

High-power microwave pulses can destroy electronics of targets at altitudes of 100 km or higher, and preliminary designs of microwave antennas driven by Relativistic Klystron Amplifiers have been sketched. This paper discusses: (1) the susceptibility of the atmosphere to microwave breakdown, and (2) the constraint on the design of a microwave weapon imposed by the need to avoid breakdown.

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John M. Myers and Tai Tsun Wu "Designing a high-power array for a target in the upper atmosphere", Proc. SPIE 1872, Intense Microwave Pulses, (8 July 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.147462

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