High-power microwave generation from a rotating E layer in a magnetron-type waveguide

Abstract
The generation of high‐power bursts of microwave radiation from hollow, relativistic E layers injected through a cusped magnetic field into a magnetron‐type conducting boundary configuration has been studied experimentally. Using a 2‐MeV, 2‐kA, 5‐ns injected beam pulse, approximately 250 MW of radiated power have been generated at 9.6 GHz.