High Power Microwave Plasma Pulse Compression

摘要

It is shown that a plasma loaded waveguide is sufficiently dispersive that very high power microwave pulse compression is possible. The input microwave pulse can be either chirped or fixed frequency, if the waveguide plasma parameters are steady or variable in time respectively. Keywords: Plasma loaded waveguide; High power microwave pulse compression; Input microwave pulse; Waveguide plasma parameters.