High power, fast, microwave components based on beam generated plasmas

Author

Manheimer, Wallace M. ; Fernsler, Richard F. ; Gitlin, Mikhail S.

Author_Institution

Div. of Plasma Phys., Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA

Volume

26

Issue

5

fYear

1998

fDate

10/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1543

Lastpage

1555

Abstract

It is shown that the agile mirror plasma, under development as a device to simply and cheaply give electronic steering to microwave beams, also has application as a fast, electronically controlled, high power reflector, or phase shifter. In a radar system, this can lead to such applications as pulse to pulse polarization agility and electronic control of antenna gain, as well as to innovative approaches to high power millimeter wave circulators. The basic theory of the enhanced glow plasma is also developed

Keywords

glow discharges; plasma applications; plasma devices; plasma electromagnetic wave propagation; plasma production; agile mirror plasma; antenna gain; beam generated plasmas; electronic control; electronic steering; fast electronically controlled high power reflector; glow plasma; high power fast microwave components; high power millimeter wave circulators; microwave beams; phase shifter; pulse polarization agility; radar system; High power microwave generation; Microwave devices; Microwave generation; Millimeter wave radar; Mirrors; Particle beams; Plasma applications; Plasma devices; Power generation; Radar antennas;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0093-3813

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/27.736059

Filename

736059