A technique borrowed from acoustics could lead to a super-powerful amplifier of microwave radiation, according to work funded by the French Ministry of Defense. In the article published earlier this year, time reversal is used to generate high power microwave pulses from a low power arbitrary wave generator. Although it was previously thought that creating an EMP of sufficient power to disable vehicles or infrastructure would require a conventional chemical explosion, the researchers describe an early prototype of an all-electric version of what they term as a potential “electromagnetic bazooka.”Read more on the topic from the MIT Technology Review blog.See an abstract of the research.
Research Points to an Electromagnetic Bazooka
