Compact Power for Pulsed Applications: A Guide to Capacitor Charger Design

First, the Prime Power subsystem comprises the storage of energy to be radiated by the HPM Source and Antenna. The Power Conditioning subsystem takes the stored energy and makes it usable to the HPM Source, both by voltage conversion and pulse shaping. The HPM Source takes the transformed energy and creates the high-power microwave by either drastically oscillating or amplifying the voltage. Finally, the Antenna radiates the high-power microwaves at the desired frequency and gain to produce an effect in the target. Of the 4 HPM subsystems, this book specifically outlines the design and implementation of a Power Conditioning HPM subsystem developed for MTSDO at Radiance Technologies