Stand-alone pulsed power generator for HPM generation

Summary form only given. The challenges in developing and designing a 5 GW stand-alone pulsed power generator for driving a >; 100 MW high power microwave, HPM, source are discussed. Both, applied physics aspects of operating principles and limits of the individual sub-systems will be addressed. The energy, initially provided through a set of lithium-ion batteries internal to the generator, is boosted by an explosively driven flux compressor, FC, and inductively stored at a several kJ level. While the energy is stored on a microsecond timescale, it is, however, released into the load on a nanosecond timescale via an electro-explosive fuse, EEF, thus delivering GWs of electrical power to the HPM source for a duration of about 100 ns.