An Electroacoustic Method for Measuring the Intensity of High-Power Microwave Pulses

Boris D. Zaitsev, Alexy V. Ermolenko, Vladimir A. Fedorenko, Vyacheslav Y. Kalinin, and Iren E. Kuznetsova

ABSTRACT A microwave electric field intensity meter for single high-power radiowave pulses is described. A surface acoustic wave (SAW) dielectric acoustic line is used which has nonlinear electroacoustic properties and is comprised of two transducers. The first (nonlinear) transducer is affected by a microwave electric field and provides the SAW excitation due to nonlinear effects. A delayed SAW signal, carrying information about the electric field strength, is received by a linear interdigital transducer.

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