Breakdown and Transmission of High Power Microwave Beam

Author

Yu-Ping, Rao ; Jing-yu, Lin

Author_Institution

PLA Inf. Eng. Univ., Zhengzhou

fYear

2006

fDate

26-29 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Considering the pondermotive force, the transmission of high power microwave beam after air breakdown is studied. It is put forward that for long pulse beam, high-repetition pulses beam and continuous wave beam, the process of air breakdown and transmission is different compared with uniform plane wave. The uneven electric-field distribution will lead to redistribution of electron concentration and will finally form a low density channel, which will allow the microwave energy to transmit fluently. Finally, the breakdown and transmission characteristics of very short pulse, repeated pulses and continuous microwave are analyzed individually.

Keywords

electric breakdown; microwave propagation; microwaves; air breakdown; electron concentration; high power microwave beam; pondermotive force; Electric breakdown; Electron beams; Gaussian channels; Gaussian distribution; Microwave theory and techniques; Particle beams; Plasma density; Plasma waves; Power engineering and energy; Programmable logic arrays; HPM; beam; low density channel; pondermotive force;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas, Propagation & EM Theory, 2006. ISAPE '06. 7th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Guilin

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0162-3

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0163-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISAPE.2006.353305

Filename

4168346