Recent advances in high-power, pulsed microwave and millimetre radiation sources

The production of pulsed power in a form which can propagate through free space, without the assistance of guiding structures, usually requires that the pulsed power be in the form of a high frequency electromagnetic wave. The research in this field at Strathclyde University has mainly concerned the electron cyclotron maser and related devices such as the CARM. A review of the progress of this work is presented and a brief description of some of the other active research in the field of high power microwave sources is given. The author shows how computational research is a very important means of predicting and analysing the results from the high power microwave experiments