Academy of Science of the USSR
Institute of Applied Physics
STRONG MICROWAVES IN PLASMAS
Volume 1
PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
Nizhny Novgorod,
2-9 August 1999
Edited by A.G. Litvak
Editor's Preface
The 4' International Workshop on Strong Microwaves in Plasmas, 3-9 August 1999, was held on board the "Nizhny Novgorod" river ship cruising from Nizhny Novgorod to Saratov and back. This Workshop had an essentially interdisciplinary character; its objective was to gather developers of high-power microwave devices and researchers who study interaction of microwaves with matter (primarily, with plasma, both fusion and low-temperature plasmas). The three-year cycle chosen for holding the Workshop provides the participants with the possibility to accumulate, between the Workshops, a considerable research material. Thus, another objective of the Workshop is actually to sum up the results of three years of research activity. This makes participation in it especially attractive for representatives of leading scientific centers and laboratories of the world, in spite of a great number of yearly conferences in the related fields. Success of the Workshop is also conduced by its form: a weeklong stay in the closed space of a comfortable ship makes it possible to combine presentations at Workshop sessions with actually unlimited discussions in the participants'free time.
The Workshop hosted 131 scientists from 14 countries. Its scientific program comprised 20 invited plenary lectures, 16 invited topical talks and 76 original presentations. Four traditional topical sections were working at the Workshop:
- Current drive and heating of magnetically confined plasma by
microwaves (electron cyclotron and low-hybrid frequency
ranges).
- Microwave discharges in gases and their applications.
- • Nonlinear processes in plasmas (theory and microwave-plasma interaction experiments).
- Development of high-power microwave sources.
This book is the collection of invited lectures and original contributions delivered at the Fourth International Workshop on Strong Microwaves in Plasmas. The material gives a sufficiently detailed idea of the state-of-the-art and new trends in the field of development high-power microwave sources and their applications. It will be certainly useful for professionals working in this area.
A. G. Litvak
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