2000/10/05 by L. Wang, G. J. Caporaso, E. G. Cook
Physics and Astronomy · #physics.acc-ph
published as eConf C00082 (2000) TUc09 · 3 pages, 8 figures, LINAC 2000, TUC09, revision (major) The reason for the revision is that I just realized Figure 3 looks fine if I view the pdf file on the computer screen, but totally unreadable if I print it out. In this revision, I fix this problem and also change some parts of the text
An all solid-state kicker pulser for a high current induction accelerator (the Dual-Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test facility DARHT-2) has been designed and fabricated. This kicker pulser uses multiple solid state modulators stacked in an inductive-adder configuration. Each modulator is comprised of multiple metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) which quickly switch the energy storage capacitors across a magnetic induction core. Metglas is used as the core material to minimize loss. Voltage from each modulator is inductively added by a voltage summing stalk and delivered to a 50 ohm output cable. A lumped element circuit model of the inductive adder has been developed to optimize the performance of the pulser. Results for several stalk geometries will be compared with experimental data.