| 摘要 |
A beam steering array that comprises a high voltage source for providing high voltage pulses and a plurality of high voltage switches coupled between the high voltage source and a plurality of microwave sources. Each of the microwave sources are coupled to an antenna element. A trigger source is coupled to the plurality of high voltage switches for providing trigger pulses thereto that are used to selectively switch the respective switches on and off to transfer the high voltage pulses from the high voltage source to a selected microwave source. In a reduced to practice embodiment, the present invention provides for a thyratron switched beam steering array comprising a plurality of channels that each include a high voltage switch comprising a thyratron, a triggering circuit, a magnetron that is used as the microwave source, and an antenna element coupled to the magnetron.
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