A shaper of gigawatt nanosecond microwave pulses with time domain compression of magnetron radiation energy

For boosting the peak power of microwave radiaton pulses emitted by a mass- produced magnetron, a two-stage series-resonance microwave pulse compressio n system is connected to its output. The magnetron generated pulses with a power of up to 2.5 MW, a length of 3 mu s, and a repetition rate of up to 4 00 Hz. After the first compression stage, microwave pulses with a peak powe r of 150 MW and a length of 11 ns at a 3-dB level were obtained; after the second stage, these parameters were 1 GW and similar to 1 ns.