Vacuum Inductive Store/Pulse Compression Experiments on a High Power Accelerator Using Plasma Opening Switches.

Abstract

A new type of an opening switch which operates in vacuum and opens on a nanosecond timescale at voltages > 1 MV is described. This Plasma Opening Switch (POS) is able to conduct several hundred kiloamperes for approx. 50 nsec while a vacuum inductor is charged, then to open in < 10 nsec, delivering a large fraction of the stored energy to an electron-beam load. Preliminary experiments are described and a simple model of the POS operations is presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 31, 1983
Accession Number
ADA126268

Entities

People

  • Gerald Cooperstein
  • Robert A. Meger
  • Robert J. Commisso
  • Shyke A. Goldstein

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Circuits
  • Compression
  • Current Density
  • Electron Beams
  • Electrons
  • Energy
  • Energy Storage
  • Impedance
  • Inductance
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Measurement
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Peak Power
  • Plasma Opening Switches
  • Pulse Compression
  • Transmission Lines
  • X Rays

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Microelectronics