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American Institute of Physics, Journal of Applied Physics, 21(117), p. 214907, 2015

DOI: 10.1063/1.4922280

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High power microwave beam steering based on gyromagnetic nonlinear transmission lines

Journal article published in 2015 by I. V. Romanchenko ORCID, V. V. Rostov ORCID, A. V. Gunin, V. Y.-U. Konev
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Abstract

We demonstrate electronically controlled beam steering by high power RF pulses produced by two gyromagnetic nonlinear transmission lines (NLTLs) connected to a one high voltage driver. Each NLTL is capable of producing several ns RF pulses with peak power from 50 to 700 MW (6% standard deviation) at frequencies from 0.5 to 1.7 GHz (1% standard deviation) with 100 Hz repetition rate. Using a helix antenna allows irradiating of RF pulses with almost circular polarization and 350 MW maximum peak power, which corresponds to 350 kV effective potential of radiation. At the installation of two identical channels, we demonstrate the possibility of beam steering within ±15° in the horizontal plane by coherent RF pulses with circular polarization at 1.0 GHz center frequency. Fourfold increase in the power flux density for in-phase irradiation of RF pulses is confirmed by comparison with one-channel operation.