Simulation of a Crossed-Field Amplifier Using a Modulated Distributed Cathode

Abstract

I would like to thank the Boise State University department of Electrical and Computer Engineering for financial support of this research. I thank the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research for their financial support under Grant FA9550-12-C-0066. I also express my gratitude to TechX Corporation for their support of our work with Vsim and in particular David Smithe for his help. And, of course, I am immensely grateful to the review committee, Wan Kuang, Kris Campbell, Jim Browning, and Yue Ying Lau for their time and effort in validating this dissertation. I also want to thank Janos Cserna for helping develop much of the experiment, specifically the X-Y stage used to measure the dispersion. I also wish to thank Kyle Straub and Tyler Rowe for their part in developing the experimental setup, and for their collaboration.