Published April 7, 2003 | Version v1
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Microwave breakdown in air for multi-carrier, modulated or stochastically time varying RF fields

Creators

  • 1. Department of Electromagnetics, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Goeteborg (Sweden)
  • 2. Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 46 Ulyanov Street, Nizhny Novgorod 603600 (Russian Federation)
  • 3. Allgon Systems AB, Antennvaegen 6, SE-187 80 Taeby (Sweden)

Description

An investigation is made of the threshold for microwave breakdown in air in situations where the microwave power is strongly modulated or stochastically varying in time as, e.g. in communication systems based on multi-carrier operation where interference between the carriers may cause occasional high power peaks in the microwave power. Thresholds are established for the scenario of coherent and co-phased carriers as well as for breakdown in an electric field with a stochastically varying amplitude

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0022-3727/36/861/d30715.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of Physics. D, Applied Physics (ISSN 1361-6463) http://www.iop.org/

Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://stacks.iop.org/0022-3727/36/861/d30715.pdf; http://www.iop.org/;
PII
S0022-3727(03)52773-5;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. D, Applied Physics
Journal Volume
36
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
p. 861-867
ISSN
0022-3727
CODEN
JPAPBE

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
34052468
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
Descriptors DEI
AIR; BREAKDOWN; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HIGH-FREQUENCY DISCHARGES; MICROWAVE RADIATION; RF SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME DEPENDENCE
Descriptors DEC
ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FLUIDS; GASES; MODULATION; RADIATIONS