Fast high-voltage pulse generator with nonlinear transmission line for high repetition rate operation

Author

Ibuka, Shinji ; Abe, Ken Ichi ; Miyazawa, Takehiro ; Ishii, Akira ; Ishii, Shozo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Japan

Volume

25

Issue

2

fYear

1997

fDate

4/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

266

Lastpage

271

Abstract

A new application of the nonlinear transmission line (NLTL) for high-voltage pulse generation is reported. In this NLTL, a rise time of an input pulse voltage of 20-kV amplitude can be reduced from 500 to less than 120 ns. Using this circuit, we demonstrated excitation of a pulsed CO₂ laser, and obtained output energy of 129 mJ at an efficiency of 4.3%. Moreover, we find that the head-on collision of two solitons is quite effective to generate a high-voltage and short-width pulse. The input pulse is doubled in amplitude and sharpened in width, from 3.6 kV-300 ns to 11 kV-76 ns. With this method, the utilization of semiconductor devices such as the SI thyristor is possible as a primary switching device. Finally, a xenon lamp has been flashed at a repetition rate of 1 kHz

Keywords

discharge lamps; pulse generators; pulsed power switches; pulsed power technology; solitons; switchgear; thyristors; transmission lines; 11 kV; 129 mJ; 20 kV; 3.6 kV; SI thyristor; Xe lamp; circuit; fast high-voltage pulse generator; high repetition rate operation; high-voltage short-width pulse; nonlinear transmission line; pulsed CO₂ laser; semiconductor devices; soliton head-on collision; switching device; Distributed parameter circuits; Laser excitation; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse circuits; Pulse generation; Solitons; Space vector pulse width modulation; Transmission lines; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0093-3813

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/27.602498

Filename

602498