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This book covers all the major types of microwave sources, their
distinguishing features, the primary research issues and the
fundamental limits on performance. The book traces the
technological trends that form the historical foundations of the
field and compares the capabilities of HPM to those of conventional
microwaves. It is also a text of reference for research into fast
photoconducting switching, electromagnetic missiles and pulse
compression.
Following in the footsteps of its popular predecessors, High Power
Microwaves, Third Edition continues to provide a wide-angle,
integrated view of the field of high power microwaves (HPMs). This
third edition includes significant updates in every chapter as well
as a new chapter on beamless systems that covers nonlinear
transmission lines. Written by an experimentalist, a theorist, and
an applied theorist, respectively, the book offers complementary
perspectives on different source types. The authors address: How
HPM relates historically and technically to the conventional
microwave field The possible applications for HPM and the key
criteria that HPM devices have to meet in order to be applied How
high power sources work, including their performance capabilities
and limitations The broad fundamental issues to be addressed in the
future for a wide variety of source types The book is accessible to
several audiences. Researchers currently in the field can widen
their understanding of HPM. Present or potential users of
microwaves will discover the advantages of the dramatically higher
power levels that are being made available. Newcomers to the field
can pursue further research. Decision makers in direct energy
acquisition and related fields, such as radar, communications, and
high energy physics, can see how developments in HPM will affect
them.
Starship Century is an anthology by authors from both science and
fiction writing backgrounds, illustrating some of the tech and
ideology behind the illustrious goal of traveling to another star
within the next century. Edited by Gregory Benford, New York Times
bestselling science fiction author, and James Benford, leading
expert on space propulsion, Starship Century includes science
fiction by Neal Stephenson, David Brin, Joe Haldeman, Nancy Kress,
Stephen Baxter, Gregory Benford, John Cramer, Richard A. Lovett,
and Allen Steele, as well as scientific articles by Stephen
Hawking, Freeman Dyson, Robert Zubrin, Peter Schwartz, Martin Rees,
Ian Crawford, James Benford, Geoffrey Landis, Paul Davies and Adam
Crowl. This groundbreaking anthology of science and science fiction
is based on findings and discussions of the 100-Year Starship
Symposium held in 2011. In it, top scientists tackle the
opportunities for our long-term future in space. Alongside them,
science fiction authors explore the dream and the possibilities.
Following in the footsteps of its popular predecessors, High Power
Microwaves, Third Edition continues to provide a wide-angle,
integrated view of the field of high power microwaves (HPMs). This
third edition includes significant updates in every chapter as well
as a new chapter on beamless systems that covers nonlinear
transmission lines. Written by an experimentalist, a theorist, and
an applied theorist, respectively, the book offers complementary
perspectives on different source types. The authors address: How
HPM relates historically and technically to the conventional
microwave field The possible applications for HPM and the key
criteria that HPM devices have to meet in order to be applied How
high power sources work, including their performance capabilities
and limitations The broad fundamental issues to be addressed in the
future for a wide variety of source types The book is accessible to
several audiences. Researchers currently in the field can widen
their understanding of HPM. Present or potential users of
microwaves will discover the advantages of the dramatically higher
power levels that are being made available. Newcomers to the field
can pursue further research. Decision makers in direct energy
acquisition and related fields, such as radar, communications, and
high energy physics, can see how developments in HPM will affect
them.
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