High power, fast, microwave components based on beam generated plasmas

It is shown that the agile mirror plasma, under development as a device to simply and cheaply give electronic steering to microwave beams, also has ap plication as a fast, electronically controlled, high power reflector, or ph ase shifter, In a radar system, this can lead to such applications as pulse to pulse polarization agility and electronic control of antenna gain, as w ell as to innovative approaches to high power millimeter wave circulators, The basic theory of the enhanced glow plasma is also developed.