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The opportunity to develop a light, portable source of High Power Microwaves (HPM) is very clear. Advances in stacked Blumlein technology for voltage multiplication, together with the availability of fast photoconductive switches for commutation, would seem to make it unnecessary to continue to rely upon specialized vacuum or plasma tubes for HPM devices in some applications. At the 100 MW level of power, broad-band sources operating at kilo-Hertz repetition rates can be conceived which simply match compact pulse power devices to the radiation impedance of free space.
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Davanloo, F. et al. (1997). High Power, Sub-Nanosecond Rising Waveforms Created by the Stacked Blumlein Pulsers. In: Baum, C.E., Carin, L., Stone, A.P. (eds) Ultra-Wideband, Short-Pulse Electromagnetics 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6896-1_5
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