Pulsed-Power System Diagnostics: Electromagnetic Data Interpretation Along Pulse Lines

Abstract

The voltage and current at any position in a transmission-line pulser can be calculated from arbitrary voltage and current pulse shapes measured at one position in the pulse line. A simple closed-form method for doing this is discussed. This method is particularly amenable to a computer-driven transient- digitizer system. At the Harry Diamond Laboratories Aurora Facility this method is implemented in the PDP 11/60 program, VANDALS, and is used for the inter- comparison of sensors along the transmission path in the vacuum region of the pulser. For slowly varying pulses this method is seen to reduce to the addition of an inductive correction term to the measured voltage.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA146607

Entities

People

  • G. A. Huttlin

Organizations

  • Harry Diamond Laboratories

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • Computers
  • Data Processing
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Electronics
  • Energy
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Impedance
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Power
  • Pulsed Power
  • Transmission Lines
  • Waves
  • Weapons

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Approximation Theory.
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Electrical Engineering