Department of Defense Instrumentation Award.

Abstract : These funds were used to purchase a complete fast digital data acquisition system now completely installed in the Charged Particle Beam Laboratory at the University of Maryland. This instrumentation, consisting of five channels of fast digitization ( two donated by the University) controlled by a DEC 11/73 computer, is now assembled in a shielded room with trench access to all of the experiments underway in the laboratory. The projects of Department of Defense interest supported by this instrumentation are listed below: Propagation of Intense Charged Particle Beams into Vacuum, Propagation of short Burst, High Power Microwave Pulses through Neutral and Ionized Media, Free Electron Lasers Driven by Electromagnetic Pump Waves, and High Power Microwave Radiation from a Relativistic Backward wave oscillator.