High Power Microwaves (Series in Plasma Physics)

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:
 <ul>
 <li>How HPM relates historically and technically to the conventional microwave field</li>
 <li>The possible applications for HPM and the key criteria that HPM devices have to meet in order to be applied</li>
 <li>How high power sources work, including their performance capabilities and limitations</li>
 <li>The broad fundamental issues to be addressed in the future for a wide variety of source types</li>
</ul>
 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.

Science & Math

Benford, James

Swegle, John A.

Schamiloglu, Edl

Physics

CRC-Press

The first edition of High Power Microwaves was considered to be the defining book for this field. Not merely updated but completely revised and rewritten, the second edition continues this tradition. Written from a systems perspective, the book provides a unified, coherent presentation of the fundamentals in this rapidly changing field. The presentation is broad and introductory, with the flavor of a survey, yet not elementary. The authors cover all the major types of microwave sources, their distinguishing features, and primary research issues, and the fundamental limits on performance. 
What’s new in the second edition: 
• Coverage of HPM systems with a detailed example called SuperSystem 
• A survey of a class of high power radiators, with very different technologies and applications, that has fully emerged since the first edition 
• New HPM formulary contains a handy compilation of frequently used rules of thumb and formulas 
The book outlines historical trends that have led to the development of HPM and compares the capabilities of HPM to those of conventional microwaves. It divides the field into two sectors: applications driven and technology driven, and address both perspectives. Starting from the applications of HPM, the book reviews microwave fundamentals, enabling technologies, and the equipment and facilities surrounding the sources in which microwaves are generated. The authors conclude with coverage of ultrawideband technologies and the major source groups.

High Power Microwaves, Second Edition (Series in Plasma Physics)

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.

High-Power Microwaves (Artech House Microwave Library (Hardcover))

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Artech House Publishers

Zhang, Peng

Stephens, Jacob Coty

Experiments, Instruments & Measurement

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: <ul>
<li>How HPM relates historically and technically to the conventional microwave field</li> <li>The possible applications for HPM and the key criteria that HPM devices have to meet in order to be applied</li> <li>How high power sources work, including their performance capabilities and limitations</li> <li>The broad fundamental issues to be addressed in the future for a wide variety of source types</li>
</ul> 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.

Starship Century: Toward the Grandest Horizon

BENFORD, GREGORY

Astronomy & Space Science

Lucky Bat Books

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