Pulsed high power microwave oscillator with phasing capability

Author

Altgilbers, L. ; Tkach, Yu.V. ; Somov, V.A. ; Redin, S.Yu. ; Lipchanskiy, A.I. ; Tkach, Ya.

Author_Institution

US Army Space & Missile Defense Command, Huntsville, AL, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

16-21 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

High power pulsed microwave oscillator, designed to maximize energy per pulse, is described. The oscillator is used to excite the compact phased dipole array with height of 100 cm, length of 110 cm and 20 kg weight. Oscillator dimensions are: diameter 14 cm, length 18.5 cm and weight 6 kg. Experimental testing has proven this oscillator, when driving a phased dipole array, to generate a 8 ns burst of three RF pulses with peak power level of 1.2 GW, frequency band 170-500 MHz. The oscillator is driven by an external power source and is capable of operating in the repetitive mode. Number of pulses in burst and bursts repetition rate are driven by the power supply capabilities. This oscillator can be used as a single channel within the phased multichannel HPM system.

Keywords

microwave oscillators; energy per pulse; frequency 170 GHz to 500 GHz; oscillator dimensions; phased dipole array; phased multichannel HPM system; phasing capability; power 1.2 GW; power supply capabilities; pulsed high power microwave oscillator; Arrays; Electromagnetics; Microwave oscillators; Missiles; Radio frequency; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Plasma Science (ICOPS), 2013 Abstracts IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

0730-9244

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PLASMA.2013.6633357

Filename

6633357