Novel gigawatt power modulator for RF sources

Author

Yampolsky, I. ; Kirkman, G. ; Reinhardt, N. ; Hur, J. ; Jiang, B.

Author_Institution

Integrated Appl. Phys. Inc., Waltham, MA, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

17-20 May 1993

Firstpage

1327

Abstract

A novel method for producing high voltage rectangular pulses for driving RF sources is described. The approach uses two advances in pulsed power technology: 1) The BLT switch and 2) Novel transmission line transformer techniques using switches between lines. Experimentally demonstrated is a modulator producing 80 kV, 800 A output pulse requiring only 22 kV switch voltage. The output pulse is ~120 nsec long with <40 nsec rise and fall times. A modulator designed to produce 1 MV, 1 kA output pulse using 50 kV switches is described and simulated by computer. The application of this modulator to drive RF sources for advanced accelerators is discussed

Keywords

beam handling equipment; modulators; nuclear electronics; power supplies to apparatus; pulse generators; pulsed power technology; 120 ns; 80 kV; 800 A; BLT switch; RF sources; advanced accelerators; gigawatt power modulator; high voltage rectangular pulses; pulsed power technology; transmission line transformer techniques; Computational modeling; Impedance; Physics; Power transmission lines; Pulse generation; Pulse modulation; Pulse transformers; Radio frequency; Switches; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1993., Proceedings of the 1993

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1203-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1993.308606

Filename

308606