Directed Energy Applications for High Power Vacuum Electronics

Author

Hackett, Kirk E.

Author_Institution

Directed Energy Directorate, Air Force Res. Lab., Kirtland AFB, NM

fYear

0

fDate

0-0 0

Firstpage

11

Lastpage

13

Abstract

Vacuum electronics are an important enabling technology for directed energy weapons. The technologies developed by the vacuum electronics community have played in important role in the development of both high power microwave and millimeter-wave systems. Modeling and simulation, leading to virtual prototyping of sources, is now central to the development of vacuum electronics-based DEWs. The future of HPM and mm-wave DEWs rests on the vacuum electronics technology base

Keywords

high-voltage engineering; microwave tubes; military equipment; millimetre wave tubes; vacuum microelectronics; weapons; directed energy applications; directed energy weapons; high power microwave systems; high power millimeter wave systems; high power vacuum electronics; virtual prototyping; Electromagnetic heating; Elementary particle vacuum; Fires; Fuels; Kirk field collapse effect; Laboratories; Microwave technology; Particle beams; Personnel; Weapons; Active Denial; Directed Energy; High Power Microwaves; Millimeter-waves;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vacuum Electronics Conference, 2006 held Jointly with 2006 IEEE International Vacuum Electron Sources., IEEE International

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0108-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IVELEC.2006.1666161

Filename

1666161