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Originally Posted by Boomerang
I'm currently tired from jet lag. Can you explain why masers are a form of anti robot technology?
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Presumably they're thinking about high powered microwave (HPM) weapons, which use a pulse of, well, high powered microwaves to disable electronics. The voltage that builds up across conductors due to the electric field component of the microwave's electromagnetic field can burn out delicate integrated circuits in its path, or at least lock up or force a reset of electronic components. In practice, masers are not the design of choice - those I have seen described use klystrons, viricators, or traveling wave tubes.
Luke