MURI program at UCD

Summary form only given, as follows. The Multidisciplinary University Research initiative at the University of California, Davis (UCD) involves a consortium of universities and establishes a center for high energy microwave sources. The other participating universities include the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Stanford University. Extensive interaction with the high power microwave industry is anticipated, since Litton, Physics International, Teledyne and Varian are located within the Bay Area, while the other collaborating industries (Hughes, Martin Marietta and Westinghouse) are accessible by convenient flights. The host institution and the collaborators possess extensive multidisciplinary expertise, including plasma simulation, design and fabrication of high power gyrotron amplifiers and linear beam devices, FELs, vacuum field emitters, plasma diagnostics and neural nets and expert systems. Extensive experimental facilities are available including microwave tube fabrication. This provides an opportunity to conduct the prototype research and development needed to maintain U.S. leadership in high energy microwave sources and ancillary component design. High payoff design issues can be addressed and technical options and design issues narrowed before follow-on industry development efforts.