Neon gas puff implosions on a high-current microsecond generator with and without a plasma opening switch
Deeney, C. ; LePell, P. D. ; Roth, I. ; Nash, T. ; Warren, L. ; Prasad, R. R. ; McDonald, C. ; Childers, F. K. ; Sincerny, P. ; Coulter, M. C. ; Whitney, K. G.
[S.l.] : American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Published 1992
[S.l.] : American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Published 1992
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1089-7550
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AIP Digital Archive
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Physics
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Implosions of 2.5-cm-diam neon gas shells on a 1.2 μs quarter-period, 3 MA driver, FALCON, have produced no more than 7.6 kJ of kilovolt neon K-shell radiation. The incorporation of a plasma opening switch produces faster current pulses: up to 1.8 MA in 190 ns. With the higher rate of rise of current, neon gas puffs have produced up to 13.5 kJ of kilovolt K-shell radiation. Numerical calculations indicate that this increase in radiation is due to the achievement of a higher kinetic energy per ion at higher current levels. Spectroscopic measurements confirm that a significant fraction of the plasma is heated into the K-shell ionization states and that the faster current pulses increase this fraction up to 40%.
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Electronic Resource
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