High Power Microwaves 4th Edition

Following in the footsteps of its popular predecessors, High Power Microwaves, Fourth Edition continues  to provide a wide-angle, integrated view of the field of high power  microwaves (HPMs). This fourth edition includes significant updates in  every chapter as well as a new chapter on High Power Amplifiers. Written  by a range of experimentalists, theorists, and applied theorists, the  book offers complementary perspectives on different source types. The  authors address:

• How HPM relates historically and technically to the conventional microwave field
• The possible applications for HPM and the key criteria that HPM devices have to meet in order to be applied
• How high power sources work, including their performance capabilities and limitations
• The broad fundamental issues to be addressed in the future for a wide variety of source types

The  book is accessible to several audiences. Researchers currently in the  field can widen their understanding of HPM. Present or potential users  of microwaves will discover the advantages of the dramatically higher  power levels that are being made available. Newcomers to the field can  pursue further research. Decision makers in direct energy acquisition  and related fields, such as radar, communications, and high-energy  physics, can see how developments in HPM will affect them.

Key Features

• Discusses  the key criteria that must be fulfilled for emerging applications of  HPMs in addition to the HPM formulary of practical equations for  everyday work
• Describes  the broad fundamental issues for each class of HPM sources and  clarifies HPM capabilities and limitations on performance
• Uses  a format suitable for classroom instruction with updated problems in  each chapter alongside references and guidance to the literature for  readers seeking more details.