Magnetic pulse compressor for prepulse discharge in spiker-sustainer excitation technique for XeCl lasers
Giordano, G. ; Letardi, T. ; Muzzi, F. ; Zheng, C. E.
[S.l.] : American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Published 1994
[S.l.] : American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Published 1994
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1089-7623
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AIP Digital Archive
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Physics
Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology
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A high-voltage pulse output modulator using a step-up transformer with two stages of magnetic pulse compression circuits has been developed as a spiker for the purpose of obtaining the breakdown of the gas mixture when using the spiker-sustainer excitation technique for pumping XeCl discharge lasers. When the transformer input is fed by a current pulse with a peak value and a full width of 1.16 kA and 1.6 μs, respectively, formed by a discharge of an initially charged 19-kV, 57-nF capacitance in series in the transformer primary loop, the 2.7-nF output capacitor bank (Cp) of the spiker can be charged up to 67 kV with a (10%–90%) rise time of 59 ns. The modulator has been tested at a repetition rate of up to 600 Hz in burst mode using a resistor in parallel with Cp as the load.
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Electronic Resource
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