Device and method for countering a target with cumulative high-power pulses

Abstract

A control device which has an input and/or a memory for known pulse properties of a high-power pulse, influx properties and dissipation properties of a target to be assumed, determines a pulse train of the high-power pulses that renders a cumulative influx into the target from the incident high-power pulses greater than a cumulative dissipation due to the dissipation properties, such that an excess accumulation would occurs in the target for disrupting or destroying the target. A control signal representing the pulse train is delivered at the output. An irradiation device contains the control device and the pulse source arrangement for generating the pulse train with the high-power pulses. The control signal is generated with the aid of the control device or the irradiation device and the target is irradiated with the pulse train by the irradiation device.

1 . A control device for generating a control signal to drive a pulse source arrangement for generating a pulse train of high-power pulses for irradiating a target,
 wherein the pulse source arrangement contains at least one pulse source and is configured to generate the pulse train under control by the control signal;   wherein each of the pulse sources of the at least one pulse source is configured to generate the high-power pulses, and each of the high-power pulses has respectively known pulse properties;   wherein the pulse train of the high-power pulses is established by the control signal;   wherein the pulse properties of a respective one of the high-power pulses potentially radiated into the target cause an influx into the target likely to be expected according to an assumed influx property of the target;   wherein each of the influxes is assigned a dissipation likely to be expected in the target due to an assumed dissipation property of the target;   the control device comprising:   at least one of an input or a memory for the known pulse properties, for the assumed influx properties, and for the assumed dissipation properties;   an output for outputting the control signal;   the control device being configured to determine the pulse train of the high-power pulses in such a way that, based on the pulse properties and the influx properties, a cumulative influx into the target due to the incident high-power pulses is to be expected, with the cumulative influx being greater than a cumulative dissipation in the target that is to be expected based on the dissipation properties, and to cause an excess accumulation in the target according to which a desired disruption or destruction of the target is to be expected; and   the control device being configured to generate the control signal with the pulse train so determined and to deliver the pulse train at the output.   
     
     
         2 . The control device according to  claim 1 , wherein the control device is configured to determine the pulse train according to at least one matching rule for the high-power pulses. 
     
     
         3 . The control device according to  claim 2 , wherein said at least one matching rule includes a specification of at least one parameter selected from the group consisting of a pulse repetition rate, a pulse number, a pulse length, and a maximum time interval between two of the high-power pulses. 
     
     
         4 . The control device according to  claim 2 , wherein said at least one matching rule includes a specification of at least one of a pulse shape or a pulse sequence of high-power pulses. 
     
     
         5 . The control device according to  claim 1 , wherein at least one of the dissipation properties contains a property to be assumed concerning a behavior of at least one of current or voltage impulses that are brought about in the target by the high-power pulses. 
     
     
         6 . The control device according to  claim 1 , wherein at least one of the dissipation properties contains a property concerning at least one of a behavior in the target to be assumed or a decay of latency effects in the target. 
     
     
         7 . The control device according to  claim 1 , wherein at least one of the dissipation properties relates to a presumed electronic component of the target. 
     
     
         8 . An irradiation device for irradiating a target with a pulse train of high-power pulses, the irradiation device comprising:
 a control device according to  claim 1 ;   a pulse source arrangement having the at least one pulse source and being configured to be driven by the control signal delivered at the output of the control device;   said pulse source arrangement being configured to generate the high-power pulses in a form of the pulse train defined by the control signal and to radiate the high-power pulses onto the target.   
     
     
         9 . The irradiation device according to  claim 8 , wherein said at least one pulse source is a high power microwave or high-power electromagnetics source with a bandwidth of selected from the group consisting of narrow band, wide band, and ultra-wide band. 
     
     
         10 . The irradiation device according to  claim 8 , wherein said pulse source arrangement comprises at least two different pulse sources. 
     
     
         11 . The irradiation device according to  claim 8 , wherein said pulse source arrangement contains at least two pulse sources in a distributed source system. 
     
     
         12 . A method of generating a control signal for driving a pulse source configured to generate a pulse train of high-power pulses for irradiating a target, the method comprising:
 providing a control device configured to control a pulse source arrangement containing at least one pulse source and being configured to generate the pulse train under control by the control signal;
 wherein each of the pulse sources is capable of generating the high-power pulses and each of the high-power pulses has respectively known pulse properties, 
 wherein a respective one of the high-power pulses potentially radiated into the target causes in the target an influx likely to be expected from an assumed influx property of the target; 
 wherein each of the influxes has an assigned dissipation likely to be expected in the target based on an assumed dissipation property of the target; 
   receiving the known pulse properties, the assumed influx properties, and the assumed dissipation properties from at least one of the input or the memory;   ascertaining the pulse train of the high-power pulses by the control device in such a way that, based on the pulse properties and the influx properties, a given cumulative influx into the target is to be expected from the incident high-power pulses, with the given cumulative influx into the target being greater than a cumulative dissipation in the target to be expected based on the dissipation properties, wherein an excess accumulation would occur in the target according to which a desired disruption or destruction of the target is to be expected; and   generating the control signal representing the pulse train ascertained by the control device and providing the control signal at the output.   
     
     
         13 . A method for irradiating a target with a pulse train of high-power pulses, the method comprising:
 providing a control device according to  claim 1  and an irradiation device with a pulse source arrangement configured for generating the pulse train of high-power pulses for irradiating the target;   generating with the control device a control signal and providing the control signal at an output thereof;   driving the pulse source arrangement, which contains at least one pulse source by the control signal delivered at the output of the control device;   generating with the pulse source arrangement the high-power pulses in the form of the pulse train driven by the control signal, and radiating the high-power pulses onto the target.