High-power microwave generation from a rotating <i>E</i> layer in a magnetron-type waveguide

Abstract

The generation of high-power bursts of microwave radiation from hollow, relativistic E layers injected through a cusped magnetic field into a magnetron-type conducting boundary configuration has been studied experimentally. Using a 2-MeV, 2-kA, 5-ns injected beam pulse, approximately 250 MW of radiated power have been generated at 9.6 GHz.