End-to-End Modeling to Scope High-Power Microwave Systems

Summary form only given. High-power microwave systems are complex assemblies of subsystems that include the prime and pulsed power, the microwave sources themselves, mode converters, and antennas. Further, to fully scope a system, one must include the platform, cooling subsystems, and the propagation of the microwaves from the antenna. We will describe a modeling code built of rather simple phenomenological models for individual subsystems that taken in total can be used to scope out the primary operational parameters of these complex systems: the output power, the volume, mass, and linear dimensions of the system, and main internal parameters, such as the prime and pulsed power requirements. We will show results for two different design concepts for a mobile microwave system with power at the gigawatt level.