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A thermoacoustic sensor for recording high-power nanosecond microwave pulses

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The operating principle and design of an uncooled noise-immune high-power microwave pulse sensor is described. The sensor operation is based on the effect of acoustic signal generation when microwave pulses are absorbed in a layer structure, in which a thin metal nanometer-thick film is used as an absorber. The sensor is placed in a free space and intended to detect microwave pulses with ∼10- to 100-ns durations in a 10- to 300-GHz frequency band with a pulse repetition rate of up to 5 kHz. For 10-ns-long pulses, the sensor sensitivity is 0.5 V/mJ.

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  1. Physical Faculty, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia

    V. G. Andreev

  2. Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Mokhovaya 11, str. 7, Moscow, 125009, Russia

    V. A. Vdovin

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Original Russian Text © V.G. Andreev, V.A. Vdovin, 2009, published in Pribory i Tekhnika Eksperimenta, 2009, No. 2, pp. 81–85.

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Andreev, V.G., Vdovin, V.A. A thermoacoustic sensor for recording high-power nanosecond microwave pulses. Instrum Exp Tech 52, 226–229 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020441209020171

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