John C. Rodgers served in the U.S. Navy from 1975 to 1981 where he worked on military satellite communications, navigation and radar systems. In 1981 he joined the Space Systems Department at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab where he developed automated electronic and radiation testing systems for flight hardware. He received the B.S. in electrical engineering in 1987 from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 2003 from the Far Infrared Center, Fukui University. In 1985 he joined the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics where he is an associate research scientist. He served as associate director in IREAP from 1996 to 2008.
He has worked on the propagation and applications of intense relativistic particle beams, collective ion acceleration, large orbit gyrotrons, broadband plasma-microwave interactions, free electron lasers, and harmonic gyrotrons. He also leads an experimental group at IREAP studying microwave effects in high-speed communication electronics and microwave sources, including plasma HPM sources for IED and missile defense, chaotic microwave networks, microwave effects in electronic systems, and terahertz source technologies. He has authored or co-authored over 60 regular journal articles and has contributed to several books on related research topics.
Related websites:
General overview of research
Harmonic Gyrotron Laboratory
Microwave and Chaos Effects on Electronics (MURI 2001)
