Water Dielectric Pulse Power Driver for Rare-Gas-Halide Lasers

Abstract

A water dielectric double Blumlein pulse generator has been designed that could deliver a 790 KV prepulse and then sustain 800 KA for about 300 ns in a novel low inductance Excimer laser head.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA638538

Entities

People

  • B. L. Wexler
  • J. D. Shipman Jr.
  • W. H. Lupton

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Efficiency
  • Electrodes
  • Energy
  • Excimer Lasers
  • Generators
  • High Voltage
  • Impedance
  • Inductance
  • Laser Gases
  • Lasers
  • Military Research
  • Multichannel
  • Pulse Generators
  • Residuals
  • Transmission Lines
  • Voltage

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Lasers
  • Directed Energy - Pulsed-Laser Deposition