Aurora Synchronization Improvement

Abstract

The Aurora flash x-ray simulator has undergone a series of hardware upgrades over the past five years. The upgrades have improved simulator reliability and have provided new environments for hardness testing. Recently, synchronization of the four pulse-forming lines (PFLs) has been significantly improved over the original design. The four parallel PFLs are now synchronized to within 10 ns over 60% of the shots. This paper describes the current switching scheme, reports the current timing statistics, and discusses the effects of improved synchronization on hardness test parameters such as shot to shot reproducibility of the dose.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA639246

Entities

People

  • D. C. Judy
  • D. M. Weidenheimer
  • N R Pereira

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Science
  • Electric Fields
  • Electrodes
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Gamma Rays
  • Generators
  • Inductance
  • Measurement
  • Probability Distributions
  • Radiation
  • Refractory Materials
  • Reproducibility
  • Resistance
  • Simulators
  • Voltage

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Nuclear and Radiation Engineering.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.