Ultrashort high power pulse generator
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
InventorsVictor M. Mendez, Sun K. Hong, Jerry T. Kim
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Abstract
A method of generating a high-power Radio-Frequency ultrashort waveform comprising the steps of generating an input waveform at a relatively low power level from an impulse response characteristic of a reverberant cavity via one-bit quantization and time reversal; generating an amplified input waveform of a power higher than the input waveform via feeding the input waveform into one or more amplifiers; generating a compressed ultrashort pulse having a high power relative to the amplified input waveform via feeding the amplified input waveform into the reverberant cavity.
Claims11
A method of generating a high-power Radio-Frequency ultrashort waveform comprising the steps of:
- generating an input waveform at a relatively low power level from an impulse response characteristic of a reverberant cavity via one-bit quantization and time reversal;
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- generating a compressed ultrashort pulse having a high power relative to the input waveform via feeding the input waveform into the reverberant cavity.
An ultrashort high-power pulse generator comprising:
- a reverberant cavity assembly having an input port and output port each opening onto a hollow cavity defined by sidewalls of the assembly;
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- an arbitrary waveform generator configured to record an impulse response from the reverberant cavity and modify the impulse response to have uniform amplitude using one-bit time reversal, thereby generating an input waveform,
- wherein the output port of the reverberant cavity assembly outputs the ultrashort high-power pulse.
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