Design of a new driver for fast and ultra-powerful capillary discharge

Author

Schmidt, J. ; Bohacek, V. ; Kolacek, K. ; Ripa, M. ; Sunka, P. ; Frolov, O.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Plasma Phys., Acad. of Sci. of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

fYear

2002

fDate

30 June-3 July 2002

Firstpage

370

Lastpage

373

Abstract

A new driver for fast capillary and ultra-powerful capillary discharge is designed. The designed new apparatus is capable to reach a potential transition to shorter wavelengths. A geometry of its all main parts enables axial access to both capillary ends. The "transparent" capillary distinctly simplifies adjustment, monitoring and subsequent applications of the capillary discharge experiments. As a next free parameter for the new driver the Marx generator has been added as well. The new Marx generator is designed and solved for two types of composing capacitors. Results of two models of the designed driver are presented.

Keywords

discharges (electric); power capacitors; pulse generators; pulsed power supplies; Marx generator; axial access; capacitors; driver; fast capillary discharge; monitoring; shorter wavelengths; transparent capillary; ultra-powerful capillary discharge; Capacitors; Character generation; Contracts; Fault location; Laser excitation; Laser modes; Physics; Pulse generation; Voltage; X-ray lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Modulator Symposium, 2002 and 2002 High-Voltage Workshop. Conference Record of the Twenty-Fifth International

ISSN

1076-8467

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7540-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MODSYM.2002.1189492

Filename

1189492