Theoretical and experimental investigation of axial power extraction from a magnetically insulated transmission line oscillator
- 1 April 1990
- proceedings article
- Published by SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
- p. 199-208
- https://doi.org/10.1117/12.18557
Abstract
The utility of the magnetically insulated transmission line oscillator (MILO) as a high power microwave source depends on how efficiently power can be extracted from it. We have designed a slow-wave stepped transformer for the purpose of axially extracting microwave power from a 3. 6 GHz coaxial MILO. The slow-wave transformer design was optimized using particle-in-cell simulation and tested in experiments performed on the HPM Simulation Division''s GEMINI and GYPSY water Blumlein pulse power sources. in this paper we summarize the slow-wave stepped transformer design and describe MILO axial power extraction experiments which yielded up to 300 MW of radiated power. 1.Keywords
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