Development of the pulsed power system for the phelix Kilo/Joule/Petawatt-laser at GSI darmstadt

Author

Tauschwitz, A. ; Samek, S. ; Villwock, P. ; Tchumatchenko, T. ; Blazek, M. ; Brand, H. ; Gotte, S. ; Borneis, S.

Author_Institution

GSI-Darmstadt, Darmstadt

fYear

2004

fDate

23-26 May 2004

Firstpage

238

Lastpage

241

Abstract

The high power laser PHELIX is currently installed at the heavy ion accelerator facility GSI-Darmstadt. It will deliver several kJ in pulses of 1 to 10 ns length with variable pulse shaping, and up to one petawatt power in 500 fs pulses using chirped pulse amplification. The pulsed power system setup for the glass amplifiers and Faraday rotators is described. The capacitor bank for the 315 mm main amplifiers will store 3 MJ of energy and is switched with ignitrons. The discharge circuit and safety system are discussed. The structure of the control system, monitoring and data acquisition is also described and the procedures for component and full system tests are summarized

Keywords

Faraday effect; amplifiers; capacitor storage; data acquisition; lasers; mercury arc rectifiers; pulse shaping; pulsed power supplies; 3 MJ; 315 mm; Faraday rotator; GSI-Darmstadt; capacitor bank; chirped pulse amplification; data acquisition; discharge circuit; energy storage; glass amplifier; heavy ion accelerator facility; high power laser PHELIX; ignitron; petawatt power; pulsed power system; safety system; variable pulse shaping; Capacitors; Chirp; Circuits; Glass; Ion accelerators; Power amplifiers; Power lasers; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse power systems; Pulse shaping methods;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Modulator Symposium, 2004 and 2004 High-Voltage Workshop. Conference Record of the Twenty-Sixth International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8586-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MODSYM.2004.1433552

Filename

1433552