Fundamental limitations and trade-offs for high power microwave generation with photoconductors

Technical Report · Tue Oct 04 00:00:00 EDT 1988

OSTI ID:6685099

Pocha, M D

There has recently been much interest in photoconductive devices as high speed, low jitter, high power switches for use in high power microwave generation systems. While photoconductive switches are very promising devices there are some fundamental limits and trade-offs which must be considered in attempting to apply them to high power microwave generation. The purpose of this report is to describe the more important of these fundamental limits and trade-offs and to present some criteria for comparison of various circuit and system approaches. 1 ref., 1 fig.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 6685099
• Report Number(s): UCID-21458-Rev.1; ON: DE89002852
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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