Fast, High Power Microwave Components Based on Beam Generated Plasmas

摘要

It is shown that the agile mirror plasma, under development as a device to simplyand cheaply give electronic steering to microwave beams, also has application as a fast, electronically controlled, high power reflector or phase shifter. In a radar system, this can lead to such applications as pulse to pulse polarization agility and electronic control of antenna gain, as well as to innovative approaches to high power millimeter wave circulators.