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Active Bragg Compressor of 3-cm Wavelength Microwave Pulses

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We present the results of studies of the active compressor of 3-cm wavelength microwave pulses, which uses a high-Q storage Bragg resonator excited at the H01 mode and new types of plasma switches. Phase variation during a compressed pulse and phase correlation of the input and compressed microwave pulses are studied both experimentally and theoretically. Using a single-channel compressor excited at the megawatt power level by the magnicon radiation with frequency 11.4 GHz, a power amplification factor equal to 9 was reached for an output-pulse duration of 40–50 ns and a peak power of up to 25 MW.

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  1. Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

    A. L. Vikharev, A. M. Gorbachev, O. A. Ivanov, V. A. Isaev, S. V. Kuzikov & B. Z. Movshevich

  2. Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, USA

    J. L. Hirshfield

  3. Omega-P, Inc., New Haven, USA

    J. L. Hirshfield

  4. Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA

    S. H. Gold

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 51, No. 7, pp. 597–616, July 2008.

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Vikharev, A.L., Gorbachev, A.M., Ivanov, O.A. et al. Active Bragg Compressor of 3-cm Wavelength Microwave Pulses. Radiophys Quantum El 51, 539–555 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11141-008-9053-3

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